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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)
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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

Exposing components with Lightning Out

Lightning Out is a JavaScript library that can be imported into regular HTML pages, such as Visualforce pages, and other websites or other containers, such as Google Apps. Once imported, it exposes an API that allows the page developer to instantiate a Lightning component and inject it into a given HTML element on that page. The host page must provide a Salesforce session or OAuth token to allow this to happen in a secure way. At the time of writing, this feature is in Beta; you can read more about it at https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/component-library/documentation/en/lwc/lightning_out.

The process of using Lightning Out for Visualforce pages is simplified through the use of the apex:includeLightning component on the page, which loads the JavaScript library and handles authentication. Call the $Lightning.use global method to begin the bootstrapping process to load the component into the page.

Using Lightning components...