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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

Format date/DateTime using the Aura Localization Service


The localization service of the Aura components takes care of providing localization support to the client-side JavaScript input and output. In this section, we will cover a few of the functions provided by the localization service. For a comprehensive list of the functions supported, refer to the official documentation at https://<myDomain>/auradocs/reference.app#reference?topic=api:AuraLocalizationService. Here, myDomain is the custom domain name of your organization.

Find your organization's time zone

To find the local time zone of the running user, copy the following snippet of code into your component JavaScript:

var OrgtimeZone = $A.get("$Locale.timezone");

Find your organization's local currency

To find the local currency, copy the following snippet of code in your component's JavaScript: 

var Orgcurrency = $A.get("$Locale.currency");

Formatting dates 

To understand how to format dates, let's copy the following code files into...