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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)

Where is Apex used?

The following table lists the types of execution contexts that Apex code can be run from and considerations with respect to security and state management. While a description of how to implement each of these is outside the scope of this book, some aspects, such as Batch Apex, are discussed in more detail in a later chapter when considering data volumes:

Execution context

User

Security

State management

Anonymous Apex

Current user

 

Sharing is enforced by default, unless disabled by applying the without sharing keyword to the enclosing class.

CRUD and FLS are enforced by default, but only against the code entered directly into the Execute Anonymous window. The code will fail to compile if the user does not have access to the objects or fields referenced.

Note that checking is only performed by the platform at compilation time; if the...