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

Summary

In this chapter, you have learned about the high-level architecture of the Lightning Web Component framework, in terms of a standalone page as well as when it comes to integrating Lightning components within Lightning Experience, Lightning Community, Salesforce Mobile, and Lightning Flow.

Lightning Experience is now much more extensible than the original Salesforce Classic user interface. There are more options to consider before deciding whether your only option is to start building entirely new, from-the-ground-up, page-level experiences. Thinking about these integration capabilities as you consider your user experience requirements, along with aligning component thinking between developers and UX designers, is key to embracing this new way of building applications on Salesforce.

The need for separation of concerns and good coding practices is now as important at the client tier as it is at the backend. It is also more important to monitor your architecture for the...