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Learning Salesforce Lightning Application Development

By : Mohit Shrivatsava
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Learning Salesforce Lightning Application Development

By: Mohit Shrivatsava

Overview of this book

Built on the Salesforce App Cloud, the new Salesforce Lightning Experience combines three major components: Lightning Design System, Lightning App Builder, and Lightning Components, to provide an enhanced user experience. This book will enable you to quickly create modern, enterprise apps with Lightning Component Framework. You will start by building simple Lightning Components and understanding the Lightning Components architecture. The chapters cover the basics of Lightning Component Framework semantics and syntax, the security features provided by Locker Service, and use of third-party libraries inside Lightning Components. The later chapters focus on debugging, performance tuning, testing using Lightning Testing Services, and how to publish Lightning Components on Salesforce AppExchange.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
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Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 13. Lightning Navigation and Lightning Console APIs

The Lightning navigation service provides the ability to navigate from one Lightning Component to another and helps users to navigate to standard object pages in Lightning Experience. In this chapter, we will familiarize ourselves with the Lightning NavigationComponent and its usage.

Lightning Console apps provide the ability to open multiple subtabs from the main tab to enhance the productivity of the user. They do this by allowing us to view or compare data from multiple records. The console APIs provide a rich set of JavaScript components for developers to control navigation. In this chapter, we will see how to work with the console APIs using relevant code snippets.

We will also explore some standard Lightning events that are baked into the Salesforce Lightning container in order to navigate to create records and edit forms.

In this chapter, we will explore the following topics:

  • Adding navigation support using Lightning :navigation...