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Salesforce Lightning Platform Enterprise Architecture - Third Edition

By : Andrew Fawcett
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Salesforce Lightning Platform Enterprise Architecture - Third Edition

By: Andrew Fawcett

Overview of this book

Salesforce 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.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Calling the Service layer

The preceding examples have shown the use of the service class methods from Lightning Component Apex controller methods. Let's take a closer look at what is happening here, the assumptions being made, and also at two other callers, an Apex Scheduler and a Visualforce Apex Controller. Throughout the rest of the book, you will also see other examples such as Batch Apex and Platform Event Subscriptions. 

Keep the following in mind when reviewing the following use cases:

  • There is no need for the calling code shown in the following sections to concern itself with rolling back changes made within the service that may have been made to object records up to the exception being thrown, since the caller is safe in the assumption that the Service method has already ensured this is the case.
  • Error handling in each of the following sections is unique, yet...