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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

Summary

In this chapter, you have learned about the high-level architecture of the Lightning Web Component framework, in terms of a standalone page as well as when it comes to integrating Lightning components within Lightning Experience, Lightning Community, Salesforce Mobile, and Lightning Flow.

Lightning Experience is now much more extensible than the original Salesforce Classic user interface. There are more options to consider before deciding whether your only option is to start building entirely new, from-the-ground-up, page-level experiences. Thinking about these integration capabilities as you consider your user experience requirements, along with aligning component thinking between developers and UX designers, is key to embracing this new way of building applications on Salesforce.

The need for separation of concerns and good coding practices is now as important at the client tier as it is at the backend. It is also more important to monitor your architecture for the...