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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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22
Index

Summary

In this chapter, we learned that Salesforce provides a great standard UI experience that is highly customizable and adaptable to new features of the platform without you necessarily releasing new revisions of your application. We observed that at its core, it is a data-centric user experience, which means that most tasks come down to creating, editing, or deleting records of some kind. Having a strong focus on your Domain layer code protects the data integrity of your application.

We learned that if you want to express a more complex process or a series of tasks, Lightning and Visualforce allow you to be more expressive, using components or other HTML libraries to create the user experience needed for the task at hand. While this is very powerful, it is important to always consider the standard UI and, wherever possible, augment or complement it with the standard Salesforce components rather than making customization the only way of interacting with your application.

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