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Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architecture- fourth edition

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804619773
Length 712 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Andrew Fawcett Andrew Fawcett
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

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, we learned that Salesforce provides a great standard UI experience that is highly customizable and adaptable to new features of the platform without you necessarily releasing new revisions of your application. We observed that at its core, it is a data-centric user experience, which means that most tasks come down to creating, editing, or deleting records of some kind. Having a strong focus on your Domain layer code protects the data integrity of your application.

We learned that if you want to express a more complex process or a series of tasks, Lightning and Visualforce allow you to be more expressive, using components or other HTML libraries to create the user experience needed for the task at hand. While this is very powerful, it is important to always consider the standard UI and, wherever possible, augment or complement it with the standard Salesforce components rather than making customization the only way of interacting with your application.

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