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Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architecture - Fourth Edition

By : Andrew Fawcett
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Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architecture - Fourth Edition

By: Andrew Fawcett

Overview of this book

Salesforce makes architecting enterprise grade applications easy and secure – but you'll need guidance to leverage its full capabilities and deliver top-notch products for your customers. This fourth edition brings practical guidance to the table, taking you on a journey through building and shipping enterprise-grade apps. This guide will teach you advanced application architectural design patterns such as separation of concerns, unit testing, and dependency injection. You'll also get to grips with Apex and fflib, create scalable services with Java, Node.js, and other languages using Salesforce Functions and Heroku, and find new ways to test Lightning UIs. These key topics, alongside a new chapter on exploring asynchronous processing features, are unique to this edition. You'll also benefit from an extensive case study based on how the Salesforce Platform delivers solutions. By the end of this Salesforce book, whether you are looking to publish the next amazing application on AppExchange or build packaged applications for your organization, you will be prepared with the latest innovations on the platform.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Part I: Key Concepts for Application Development
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Part II: Backend Logic Patterns
11
Part III: Developing the Frontend
14
Part IV: Extending, Scaling, and Testing an Application
21
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Index

Building web experiences with Node.js and Heroku

Heroku can be used to create web, mobile, and API experiences with a variety of programming languages, frameworks, and supporting data stores. In this case, we have chosen to use Node.js, LWR, and Heroku Postgres.

The ability to create web experiences with LWCs in Node.js reuses skills you may already have or will develop later when you are developing UI experiences within the Salesforce UI, known as Lightning Experience or LEX. For this part of the chapter, it will help to have some knowledge of Node.js and its packaging framework, npm.

When you deploy to Heroku, it automatically detects the languages you are using by scanning the files you have created and chooses the latest operating system, build, and runtime tools for you: this is a key feature of Heroku and saves you from worrying if the operating system or build tools are current and have the latest security patches applied.

The following subsections will focus...