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

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

Key Features

• Build a multi-platform application from scratch
• Make use of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS to build custom components
• Create apps visually using Lightning components

Book Description

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

You will start by building simple Lighnting components and understanding the Lightning component architecture. Then you will build, test and debug Lightning components.

The chapters cover real world practical use cases for building Lightning components for Salesforce Lightning experience , Salesforce1 Mobile Application, or Salesforce Communities. The later chapters focus on performance tuning and how to take these components onto the Salesforce AppExchange.

What you will learn

• Understand Lightning component architecture
• Learn Locker security best practices
• Master the Lightning component framework architecture
• Debug and Improve performance of your Lightning components
• Use third party libraries along with the 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.