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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)

Creating and testing a new package version

If you are following along instead of using the source code provided for this chapter, be sure to run sfdx force:source:pull to synchronize the changes made in this chapter. Take the time to review your project file contents after completing the steps in this chapter and then perform another package creation and test an install of the new package in a separate testing scratch org. If you need a reminder of these steps, refer to Chapter 1, Building and Publishing Your Application.

Do not forget to update your ancestry configuration in your sfdx-project.json file as per the instructions in Chapter 1, Building and Publishing Your Application, to reference the package version created in that chapter; otherwise, your new package will not be eligible to upgrade from a previous version install.

If you choose to perform the install...