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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)

Summary

In this chapter, you saw how integrations are the lifeblood of the internet and are key to a business making the most out of the efficiencies offered by combining services from multiple vendors into a single process or experience for its employees and customers.

You learned that managing integrations can become complex and costly; however, this is something Salesforce has made easier by providing features that not only reduce the coding involved through External Services, but also improves security by taking this responsibility away from the developer and consolidating it as a set of features such as Connected Apps (inbound) and Auth Providers (outbound).

You also learned that administrators can audit and monitor external solutions, accessing precious data as well as controlling the flow of data potentially leaving the org through such features. Keep in mind that...