You're reading from Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architecture- fourth edition A must-read guide to help you architect and deliver packaged applications for enterprise needs

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804619773

Length 712 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Salesforce

Concepts

Solution Architecture

Author (1):

Andrew Fawcett

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part I: Key Concepts for Application Development

2. Building and Publishing Your Application FREE CHAPTER

3. Leveraging Platform Features

4. Application Storage

5. Apex Execution and Separation of Concerns

6. Part II: Backend Logic Patterns

7. Application Service Layer

8. Application Domain Layer

9. Application Selector Layer

10. Additional Languages, Compute, and Data Services

11. Part III: Developing the Frontend

12. Building User Interfaces

13. User Interfaces and the Lightning Component Framework

14. Part IV: Extending, Scaling, and Testing an Application

15. Providing Integration and Extensibility

16. Asynchronous Processing and Big Data Volumes

17. Unit Testing

18. Source Control and Continuous Integration

19. Integrating with External Services

20. Adding AI with Einstein

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

22. Index

Summary

In this chapter, by expanding the use case of our fictional FormulaForce application, we have seen several powerful ways to scale logic further while using additional programming languages and data storage to go beyond only using Apex and Custom Objects. We used Heroku to build a public-facing website and an API in Node.js, which can be optionally extended to send authentication back to the Salesforce org and thus enrich this experience with data stored in the Salesforce Platform and Salesforce CRM. We used the ability of Salesforce Functions to write code in Java and used third-party libraries to build more sophisticated experiences within Lightning Experience.

Using additional programming languages and data stores, you can open a wider skillset pool for your projects, and also enable access to the ecosystems surrounding them with a rich set of libraries and tools that offer more possibilities and embrace the very latest industry standards and practices, such as OpenAPI...