Make the most of Salesforce Lightning by delivering impressive enterprise-grade applications with the help of established architectural patterns and best practices. Key Features * Use the Salesforce Platform to build integrated, scalable, and robust apps focused on enterprise-level customer demands * Deliver modern and responsive user experiences targeting multiple devices through Lightning Experience and Salesforce Mobile * Extend your application with access to external services and AI Book Description Salesforce makes architecting enterprise-grade applications easy and secure - but you'll need guidance to leverage its full capabilities and deliver top-notch products for your customers. This fourth edition brings practical guidance to the table, taking you on a journey through building and shipping enterprise-grade apps. You will learn how to leverage the platform's many productivity features and harness its extensibility and customization capabilities. This guide will teach you advanced application architectural design patterns such as Separation of Concerns, Unit Testing, and Dependency Integration. You'll also get to grips with Apex and FFLib, and create scalable services with Java, Node.js, and other languages using Salesforce Functions and Heroku, and find new ways to test Lightning UIs with UTAM. These key topics, alongside a new chapter on exploring Asynchronous Processing Features, are unique to this edition. You'll also benefit from an extensive case study based on how Salesforce Platform delivers solutions. By the end of this Salesforce book, whether you are looking to publish the next amazing application on AppExchange or build packaged applications for your organization, you will be prepared with the latest innovations on the platform. What you will learn * Create and deploy packaged apps for your own business or for AppExchange * Understand Enterprise Application Architecture patterns * Customize mobile and desktop user experience with Lightning Web Components * Manage large data volumes with asynchronous processing and big data strategies * Learn how to go beyond the Apex language, and utilize Java and Node.js to scale your skills and code with Heroku and Salesforce Functions * Test and optimize Salesforce Lightning UIs with UTAM * Use Salesforce AWS Integration and Lightning External Services to integrate external code and data with your Lightning Application Who This Book Is For If you are a Salesforce developer who wants to unlock the true potential of the Salesforce platform and deliver complex, scalable applications within your company or for use in large enterprises you target through AppExchange, then you have come to the right place. You will need a solid foundation of Salesforce development to dive into this book - it is here to elevate your skills, not teach you the basics.

A comprehensive guide filled with best practices and tailor-made examples - a must-read for all Lightning Platform architects! Key Features Use the Lightning Platform to build integrated, scalable, and robust apps focused on enterprise-level customer demands Use the Lightning Component framework to deliver modern and responsive user experiences targeting multiple devices through Lightning Experience and Salesforce Mobile Extend your application with access to external services and AI Book DescriptionSalesforce Lightning provides a secure and scalable platform to build, deploy, customize, and upgrade applications. This book will take you through the architecture of building an application on the Lightning platform to help you understand its features and best practices, and ensure that your app keeps up with your customers' increasing needs as well as the innovations on the platform. This book guides you in working with the popular aPaaS offering from Salesforce, the Lightning Platform. You'll see how to build and ship enterprise-grade apps that not only leverage the platform's many productivity features, but also prepare your app to harness its extensibility and customization capabilities. You'll even get to grips with advanced application architectural design patterns such as Separation of Concerns, Unit Testing and Dependency Integration. You will learn to use Apex and JavaScript with Lightning Web Components, Platform Events, among others, with the help of a sample app illustrating patterns that will ensure your own applications endure and evolve with the platform. Finally, you will become familiar with using Salesforce DX to develop, publish, and monitor a sample app and experience standard application life cycle processes along with tools such as Jenkins to implement CI/CD. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to develop effective business apps and be ready to explore innovative ways to meet customer demands. What you will learn Create and deploy AppExchange packages and manage upgrades Understand Enterprise Application Architecture patterns Customize mobile and desktop user experience with Lightning Web Components Manage large data volumes with asynchronous processing and big data strategies Implement Source Control and Continuous Integration Add AI to your application with Einstein Use Lightning External Services to integrate external code and data with your Lightning Application Who this book is forThis book is for Lightning platform developers who want to discover the true potential of the platform to develop complex scalable applications for use in enterprise businesses.

Architect and deliver packaged Force.com applications that cater to enterprise business needs About This Book * Explore the lightning framework, advanced application life cycle processes, and testing * Use the Force.com platform to build truly integrated, scalable, and robustly engineered applications focused on enterprise-level customer demands * Using the Lightning technology to deliver modern and responsive user experiences targeting multiple devices through Lightning Experience and Salesforce1 Mobile. * Step-by-step, work on examples to get you building your own ready-to-install packaged application Who This Book Is For This book is for advanced Force.com developers and architects who need to understand the Salesforce platform from the perspective of enterprise-level requirements. A prior understanding of Apex and Visualforce is a must. Those familiar with other enterprise software ecosystems will also find this book ideal as they adopt Force.com. What You Will Learn * Package, install, test, and upgrade an application * Define architecture-aligning data storage and functional requirements * Develop Apex code that is easy to navigate, self-documenting, testable, robust, and organic * Leverage your application's clientagnostic Service layer backbone to support numerous platform areas * Get the most from hosting your application within the Lightning Experience and Salesforce1 Mobile clients * Apply querying, indexing, and asynchronous best practices * Leverage mocking and dependency injection in your Apex tests * Explore tips for developing advanced applications In Detail Companies of all sizes have seen the need for Force.com's architectural strategy focused on enabling their business objectives. Successful enterprise applications require planning, commitment, and investment in the best tools, processes, and features available. This book will teach you how to architect and support enduring applications for enterprise clients with Salesforce by exploring how to identify architecture needs and design solutions based on industry standard patterns. There are several ways to build solutions on Force.com, and this book will guide you through a logical path and show you the steps and considerations required to build packaged solutions from start to finish. It covers all aspects, from engineering to getting your application into the hands of your customers, and ensuring that they get the best value possible from your Force.com application. You will get acquainted with extending tools such as Lightning App Builder, Process Builder, and Flow with your own application logic. In addition to building your own application API, you will learn the techniques required to leverage the latest Lightning technologies on desktop and mobile platforms. Style and approach The book takes a straightforward approach, taking apart the Force.com architecture for you to gain a deep understanding of how you can implement the Salesforce platform based on enterprise-level requirements.

This book is for advanced Force.com developers and architects who need to understand the Salesforce platform from the perspective of enterprise-level requirements. You should have an existing understanding of Apex and Visualforce. Those familiar with other enterprise software ecosystems will also find this book ideal as they adopt Force.com.