Salesforce Lightning is great at a lot of things… It looks modern, the component-oriented model works really nicely, the builder tool is nice.
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Author: Aidan Harding
A “Provider” Pattern in Salesforce Lighting
As a developer coming to Lightning, one of the immediate questions is:
How can I share code between my components?
Well, there’s a nice summary of two code-sharing options on the Salesforce Developers Blog: Modularizing Code in Lightning Components. But, Continue reading “A “Provider” Pattern in Salesforce Lighting”
Introducing Salesforce DX Open Beta
Salesforce have been dangling DX in front of source-control-hungry developers for some time now. And now it’s finally in Open Beta!
Salesforce is Opening Up Metadata to Apex Code
Your Salesforce Org is made up of two types of data: Continue reading “Salesforce is Opening Up Metadata to Apex Code”
Using Javascript Promises to chain asynchronous actions in Salesforce Lightning
Even the title of this article might make your head spin. But, if you develop Lightning Components, try to stick with it: it addresses a tricky use-case when coding Lightning Components and it is actually very neat when you get to the end.
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Using Salesforce Lightning to create responsive web content
“It looks weird on my iPhone”
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A Developer View on Lightning
For a developer focused on delivering solutions for their customers today, Lightning can seem like a lot of change and hassle for little reason.
Deploy from Salesforce to Source Control with Gearset
Non-developers won’t care (except that development happens more smoothly), but I’ve been waiting for this one…
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Code-free geocoding on Salesforce
Geocoding addresses in Salesforce gives you the ability to do neat things like show which Accounts or Contacts are near to each other, or near to your current location.
Should we use Salesforce Process Builder at all?
I’ve always been wary of Process Builder. My objection is that Process Builder’s main advantage is also its greatest weakness: It offers the power of writing code, without writing code.
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Less Work Required To Write Salesforce Lightning Components? I’m in!
Salesforce Lightning is a modern interface with some nice architectural ideas (e.g. event-based communication between modules). It is clearly the direction that SF want to go, but we have always been put off by the lack of some features that we are used to having in Visualforce. Continue reading “Less Work Required To Write Salesforce Lightning Components? I’m in!”
Salesforce Development Is Finally Growing Up
When I started writing code on Salesforce, we typed code into a basic text-input on the setup pages. There was no auto-complete, no collaboration tools, and no version control, deployment was difficult… In fact, if it weren’t for the platform itself being so powerful, it would have been a complete dead-end. Continue reading “Salesforce Development Is Finally Growing Up”