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Salesforce Platform Developer I Certification Guide

You're reading from   Salesforce Platform Developer I Certification Guide Expert tips, techniques, and mock tests for the Platform Developer I (DEV501) certification exam

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789802078
Length 546 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jan Vandevelde Jan Vandevelde
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Gunther Roskams Gunther Roskams
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Fundamentals, Data Modeling, and Management
2. Salesforce Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 3. Understanding Data Modeling and Management 4. Section 2: Logic, Process Automation, and the User Interface
5. Declarative Automation 6. Apex Basics 7. Apex - Beyond the Basics 8. The Salesforce User Interface 9. Section 3: Testing, Debugging, and Exercise
10. Testing in Salesforce 11. Debugging and Deployment Tools 12. Mock Tests 13. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix

Benefits of the Lightning Component framework

We've just seen how we can visualize our data in a Visualforce page or a Visualforce component. You must be thinking about why you should use a Lightning component while you can develop a Visualforce page. There are many benefits to using Lightning components.

The following is a small overview of some of these benefits:

  • Out of the box components: The Lightning Component framework comes with pre-built, out of the box components. You don't need to spend time creating a little framework to display a calendar when a user needs to fill in a date in a form because it's already there.
  • Components ecosystem: You are able to build full apps and share these with other users or customers, or you can build small components and reuse these components on different pages.
  • Cross-browser compatibility: Lightning components can be used...
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