Learning Salesforce Lightning Application Development

Learning Salesforce Lightning Application Development: Build and test Lightning Components for Salesforce Lightning Experience using Salesforce DX

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, Salesforce 1 Application, Communities, and more.

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 the Lightning Components architecture. The chapters cover the basics of Lightning Component Framework semantics and syntax, the security features provided by Locker Service, and use of third-party libraries inside Lightning Components. The later chapters focus on debugging, performance tuning, testing using Lightning Testing Services, and how to publish Lightning Components on Salesforce AppExchange.

What you will learn

• Understand Lightning Components architecture
• Learn Locker security best practices
• Debug and Improve performance of your Lightning Components
• Use third-party libraries along with Lightning Component Framework
• Learn how to publish Lightning Components on AppExchange
• Use Lightning Out to take your Lightning Components outside the Salesforce platform

Who this book is for

This book is 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. No knowledge of Salesforce Lightning is required.

Table of Contents

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