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

Building User Interfaces

If I were to list the technologies that have come and gone most frequently in my career, I would say it has to be those that impact the user experience. Being a user interface (UI) technology developer is a tough business; with shifts between desktop-based, web-based, mobile-based, and device-agnostic approaches, it has certainly been an interesting time over the past several years, and the web and mobile stack landscape continues to evolve. This means that investing in this part of your application architecture is important, as is the logic you put into it. Putting the wrong kind of logic into your client tier can result in inconsistent behavior and, at worst, expensive reworking if there is a shift in technology in the future.

This chapter will cover the aspects of delivering a UI for Lightning-based applications, getting the most from the standard Salesforce UIs, and building custom UIs with Lightning versus Visualforce. We will also cover using third...