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

Considerations for using third-party JavaScript libraries

As discussed, the more you move toward a stateless server-side controller and the rich client architecture of Lightning Components, the more options open up to you in leveraging client-side components not presently provided by Salesforce. Before developing a new component, you should always check the Lightning Component Reference first (https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/component-library/overview/components)!

You should also consider the use of third-party UI libraries carefully on a per-case basis (not all of your application UIs have to use the same approach) and make sure that you appreciate the value of the platform features that you are leaving behind. Expect to adjust your expectations around your client developer’s skills, velocity, and tooling. Libraries such as AngularJS, React, View.js, and Ember.js (to name only a few) can provide additional convenience, flexibility, and components available in their...