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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)
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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Index

Flow

Salesforce has historically provided several declarative tools to implement business processes and custom user experiences, such as Workflow and Process Builder. Flow is now the recommended tool by Salesforce for all such automation. End user operations such as creating, updating, or starting an approval process for a record can be customized using Flow. When you need to implement a web-based experience that provides a wizard- or interview-style user experience, you can also use the Flow tool. Flow can be used to define complex conditional business processes that need to read and update records. Automation flows, sometimes referred to as “headless Flows,” are Flows that do not interact with the user and can also be called from within Apex code.

Flow lets you build engaging UIs but has its limits since it is not a programming language in a traditional sense. This does not mean, however, that if you or your users hit a roadblock you have to abandon it....