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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

Localization and translation

It is important to take localization and translation into consideration from the beginning as it can become difficult and costly to apply them later. Fortunately, the platform can do a lot of work for you.

Localization

When using the native user interface, it automatically formats the values of numeric and date fields according to the Locale field on the user profile. Lightning Components using lightning:outputField and lightning:inputField honor localization. Visualforce pages using the apex:outputField and apex:inputField components will also automatically format values. Outputting local sensitive values in any other way will need to be handled manually in your Apex controller code or your JavaScript code.

It’s not always possible to use Lightning or Visualforce tags as described above. For example, if the information you are displaying is not contained within a Custom Object field but in some calculated view state in your Apex...