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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)

Implementing Domain Trigger logic

The most common initial use case for a Domain class is to encapsulate the Apex Trigger logic. In order to enable this, a small Apex Trigger is required to invoke the triggerHandler method. This will route the various Trigger events to the appropriate methods in the Domain class (as shown in the preceding screenshot), avoiding the need for the usual if/else logic around Trigger.isXXXX variables.

The name of this trigger can be anything, though it makes sense to match it with that of the corresponding Domain class. Once this is in place, you can ignore it and focus on implementing the Domain class methods as follows:

trigger Seasons on Season__c ( 
  after delete, after insert, after update,  
  before delete, before insert, before update) { 
    fflib_SObjectDomain.triggerHandler(Seasons.class); 
} 

In the next section, we will explore how Apex...