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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)

Source Control and Continuous Integration

So far, we have been making changes in a scratch org for the FormulaForce application. This has worked well enough, as you're the sole developer in this case. However, when you add more developers and teams, other considerations come into play—mainly, the traceability of code changes and the monitoring of code quality as multiple streams of changes are merged together.

This chapter also sees packaging take on more of a prominent role. As discussed in Chapter 1, Building and Publishing Your Application, there is a need to create a beta or release package for your own internal testing and, of course, for the eventual release to your customers. Careful management of your release process is important to you and your customers if they want you to demonstrate compliance and auditability with respect to controls for your...