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

User Interfaces and the Lightning Component Framework

In the previous chapter, we focused on building user interfaces (UIs) within Lightning Experience using declarative tools and standard components as well as ways to embed coded Lightning Web Components to customize the Salesforce web and mobile user experience. In this chapter, we take a deeper look at the underlying framework and the services it provides to developers, known as the Lightning component framework.

Lightning is a rich client-side framework for developing device-agnostic and responsive user experiences (UXs) as well as for supporting mobile, tablet, and desktop. Unlike Visualforce, it was built from the ground up with today’s multi-device client demands in mind. It is used by Salesforce themselves and is also available to developers to build their own standalone or platform-integrated UIs. The Lightning framework and some base components are open sourced so that developers can also integrate UIs built...