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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)
1
Part I: Key Concepts for Application Development
6
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

Summary

In this chapter, by expanding the use case of our fictional FormulaForce application, we have seen several powerful ways to scale logic further while using additional programming languages and data storage to go beyond only using Apex and Custom Objects. We used Heroku to build a public-facing website and an API in Node.js, which can be optionally extended to send authentication back to the Salesforce org and thus enrich this experience with data stored in the Salesforce Platform and Salesforce CRM. We used the ability of Salesforce Functions to write code in Java and used third-party libraries to build more sophisticated experiences within Lightning Experience.

Using additional programming languages and data stores, you can open a wider skillset pool for your projects, and also enable access to the ecosystems surrounding them with a rich set of libraries and tools that offer more possibilities and embrace the very latest industry standards and practices, such as OpenAPI...