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

Creating websites and communities

Salesforce recommends that Lightning Communities is used to create websites for your users, customers, and partners. This feature is based on Lightning Components and uses Experience Builder to allow you to leverage templates (known as Bolts) that you can customize with additional standard Lightning Components or custom components you build. You can read more about it here: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=community_designer_overview.htm&type=5&language=en_US.

If you are an ISV developer, there are several considerations to keep in mind when packaging sites built with Experience Builder, as outlined in this Salesforce article: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.community_builder_export_considerations.htm&type=5.

Experience Builder uses Lightning Web Runtime, the same framework used to programmatically build a website hosted on Heroku. I recommend you consider Experience Builder first before...