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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

Leveraging the Salesforce standard UIs and tools

Salesforce puts a lot of effort into its desktop: and mobile-based UIs. These declarative UIs and related UI builder tools are the first to see advancements, such as the ability to dynamically display content based on expressions. These standard UIs and tools are also the primary method by which administrators or developers will customize your application’s appearance further after installation. Furthermore, the UI will evolve with Salesforce’s frequent updates. In some cases, new features become available to your users without you even updating your application.

In general, aspects of your application that already leveraged the standard UI in Salesforce Classic will just work fine in LEX without changes, and will also automatically adopt the fresh look and feel. However, if you have utilized Visualforce extensively and/or used unsupported features, such as JavaScript Custom Buttons, you will have to make some...