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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
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

Building User Interfaces

If I were to list the technologies that have come and gone most frequently in my career, I would say it has to be those that impact the user experience. Being a user interface (UI) technology developer is a tough business; with shifts between desktop-based, web-based, mobile-based, and device-agnostic approaches, it has certainly been an interesting time over the past several years, and the web and mobile stack landscape continues to evolve. This means that investing in this part of your application architecture is important, as is the logic you put into it. Putting the wrong kind of logic into your client tier can result in inconsistent behavior and, at worst, expensive reworking if there is a shift in technology in the future.

This chapter will cover the aspects of delivering a UI for Lightning-based applications, getting the most from the standard Salesforce UIs, and building custom UIs with Lightning versus Visualforce. We will also cover using third...