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Salesforce Lightning Platform Enterprise Architecture - Third Edition

By : Andrew Fawcett
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Salesforce Lightning Platform Enterprise Architecture - Third Edition

By: Andrew Fawcett

Overview of this book

Salesforce Lightning provides a secure and scalable platform to build, deploy, customize, and upgrade applications. This book will take you through the architecture of building an application on the Lightning platform to help you understand its features and best practices, and ensure that your app keeps up with your customers’ increasing needs as well as the innovations on the platform. This book guides you in working with the popular aPaaS offering from Salesforce, the Lightning Platform. You’ll see how to build and ship enterprise-grade apps that not only leverage the platform's many productivity features, but also prepare your app to harness its extensibility and customization capabilities. You'll even get to grips with advanced application architectural design patterns such as Separation of Concerns, Unit Testing and Dependency Integration. You will learn to use Apex and JavaScript with Lightning Web Components, Platform Events, among others, with the help of a sample app illustrating patterns that will ensure your own applications endure and evolve with the platform. Finally, you will become familiar with using Salesforce DX to develop, publish, and monitor a sample app and experience standard application life cycle processes along with tools such as Jenkins to implement CI/CD. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to develop effective business apps and be ready to explore innovative ways to meet customer demands.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Extending Process Builder and Flow

The Process Builder and Flow tools allow users to create customized processes and wizard-like user experiences. Both tools offer a large selection of actions they can perform based on criteria defined by the user.

Available actions can be extended by packages installed in the org. This provides another way in which you can expose your functionality to build customized scenarios. This approach does not require the user to write any code.

The following code creates an invocable method, which is a global class and a single method with some specific annotations. These annotations are recognized by the tools to present a dynamic configuration UI to allow the user to pass information to and from the method you annotate:

global with sharing class UpdateStandingsAction { 
     
   global class UpdateStandingsParameters {

@InvocableVariable...