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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

Integrating with Lightning Experience

The screenshots in this section highlight the various points at which the components have now been integrated with Lightning Experience. These components are still available in the Race Overview standalone app we started this chapter with. Through additional metadata configurations, they now support more advanced container features.

This screenshot shows the Race Results and Race Standing components on the home page, with the Race Calendar component accessible via the utility bar. The race results are updated as the user selects races from the Race Calendar:

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Figure 10.18: Components displayed on the app home page

The next screenshot shows the Race Setup component appearing as a result of the user clicking the Add Drivers action on the race record page. Lightning component actions are configured under Actions from the Race object definition page under Setup.

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Figure 10.19: Race Setup component used for adding drivers

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