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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
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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

User Interfaces and the Lightning Component Framework

In the previous chapter, we focused on building user interfaces (UIs) within Lightning Experience using declarative tools and standard components as well as ways to embed coded Lightning Web Components to customize the Salesforce web and mobile user experience. In this chapter, we take a deeper look at the underlying framework and the services it provides to developers, known as the Lightning component framework.

Lightning is a rich client-side framework for developing device-agnostic and responsive user experiences (UXs) as well as for supporting mobile, tablet, and desktop. Unlike Visualforce, it was built from the ground up with today’s multi-device client demands in mind. It is used by Salesforce themselves and is also available to developers to build their own standalone or platform-integrated UIs. The Lightning framework and some base components are open sourced so that developers can also integrate UIs built...