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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)

Object- and field-level security

Ensuring that object- and field-level security configuration is respected in your custom UIs is a key part of your responsibility to your customers in providing a secure solution. The standard UIs do this automatically for you, but it requires further consideration for custom UIs. In this section, we will explore how to do this for both Lightning Web Components and Visualforce pages. Lightning Aura Components has more limited support for it.

The following custom UIs illustrate how object- and field-level security is applied (or not) depending on the binding approach and/or components used. This will help you understand when you need to add additional code or just rely on the standard components.

In the use case used in the next two sections, two users are used; one has full access, and the other has been given the following permissions via...