Learning Salesforce Lightning Application Development - Softcover

Shrivastava, Mohith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1787124673 ISBN 13: 9781787124677

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

Build, design, and style beautiful and informative applications on the Salesforce Lightning platform

Key Features

• Build and test Lightning components that enhance application usability and adaptability
• Apply security best practices to your custom Lightning components
• Design Lightning components for Salesforce UIs such as Lightning pages, the Salesforce1 application, and communities

Book Description

Built on the Salesforce App Cloud, the new Salesforce Lightning Experience combines three major components: Lightning Design System, Lightning App Builder, and Lightning Components, to provide an enhanced user experience. This book will enable you to quickly create modern, enterprise apps with Lightning Component Framework.

You will start by building simple Lightning components and understanding Lightning component architecture. In the initial chapters, you'll cover the basics of Lightning Component Framework semantics and syntax. You'll then delve into the security features provided by Locker Service, which forms an integral part of the Salesforce model and works to prevent components from accessing data from other components in different namespaces. You'll also cover the use of third-party libraries inside Lightning Components and understand the rich functionalities they have to offer. The later chapters will focus on debugging, performance tuning, and testing using Lightning testing services, which will then help you to make Lightning Components ready for publishing on Salesforce AppExchange.

By the end of this book, you will have the skills you need to design and build components on your own to meet custom component needs.

What you will learn

• Understand Lightning component architecture
• Study locker security best practices
• Debug and improve the performance of your Lightning components
• Use third-party libraries along with the Lightning Component framework
• Discover how to publish Lightning components on AppExchange
• Use Lightning Out to run Lightning component apps outside

Who this book is for

This book is designed for Salesforce developers or developers from other platforms who are familiar with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and want to build and test Salesforce Lightning components. Prior knowledge of Salesforce Lightning is not required.

Table of Contents

1. Getting started with Lightning Component Framework
2. Exploring Salesforce DX
3. Working with Lightning Component Building Blocks
4. Lightning JavaScript API
5. Understanding Events In Lightning Component Framework
6. Lightning Data Services and Base Components
7. Using External JavaScript Libraries Inside Lightning Components
8. Performance Tuning Your Lightning Component
9. Debugging Lightning Components
10. Taking Lightning Components Outside Salesforce Using Lightning Out
11. Lightning Flows
12. Making Components Available For Salesforce Mobile and Communities
13. Lightning Navigation and Lightning Console APIs
14. Unit Testing Components Using Lightning Testing Service
15. Publishing Lightning Components On AppExchange

About this title

About the Author:

Mohith Shrivastava has been building and architecting Salesforce applications since 2011, when he graduated from the National Institute of Engineering, Mysore.

He is currently a Salesforce MVP and holds multiple Salesforce certifications. He is an active contributor on Salesforce Stack Exchange Community. Mohith has authored Learning Salesforce Einstein and Salesforce Essentials for Administrators for Packt publishing. In his leisure time, he loves exploring the latest technologies and spending time with his family.

About this edition

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1787124673
• ISBN 13: 9781787124677
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 458