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Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architecture - Fourth Edition

By : Andrew Fawcett
Book Image

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

FormulaForce Lightning Components

In designing the Lightning Components for the FormulaForce sample application contained in this book, I wanted to try to demonstrate some key integration points within the Salesforce UIs, while also ensuring that the use cases fit with the application domain.

I focused on Lightning Experience and Salesforce Mobile. It is also good practice to think platform-first before embarking on any extensive UI development. I started with the following use cases and then devised a set of components to deliver the functionality:

  • Race Overview: While the standalone Lightning application we looked at earlier was a good means to get started with the components, it’s not a Salesforce-integrated solution. What I wanted to do was integrate the Lightning Experience home page through the Lightning App Builder customization tool. I wanted to do this not only to show the overall standings (leaderboard) but to allow users to filter information through...