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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)

Updating the FormulaForce package

As described in Chapter 1, Building and Publishing Your Application, utilize the source code provided with this chapter to create a new version of your package and install it in a test org. Keep in mind that the new Verify Compliance button added in this chapter has been added to the Driver layout since the last release of the package. Since layouts are non-upgradable components, this will need to be added manually after installation in the test org when upgrading, as will any new Custom Fields added throughout this chapter.

You would typically notify users of post installation steps through your upgrade and installation guide. You will also have to ensure that users are made aware of any Lightning Components as part of your solution. As previously noted, packaging Lightning pages creates a dependency on the My Domain feature having been...