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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

Mobile applications

Mobile application development began with well-known mobile frameworks, such as jQuery Mobile and AngularJS, used along with Salesforce’s own APIs, including OAuth for authentication, and the Salesforce REST API to access Standard and Custom Object records. This led up to Salesforce creating the Salesforce Mobile application.

The interesting thing about this is that it has evolved separately from the browser UI, which started with the standard declarative-driven UI and could then be augmented with a more developer-driven solution, such as Lightning Components. For a mobile UI, prior to the release of Salesforce Mobile, we only had the option to build a custom UI with a developer.

With the Salesforce Mobile app, we now have more options available for building mobile UIs, building purely with code via industry mobile frameworks such as those above, using mobile-ready websites, or extending the Salesforce Mobile application. It is important to make...