Salesforce Lightning Application Development Essentials

2017 | Computing & IT

Build, design, and style beautiful and informative applications on the Salesforce platform About This Book * This practical, hands-on guide will help you to build a multi-platform application from scratch * Make use of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS to build custom components * Create apps visually using the Lightning component Who This Book Is For This book is for existing Visualforce developers who are looking to gain hands-on experience with the new Lightning Experience to build classy Salesforce applications fast. A basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript will help you get through more advanced parts of the book.

What you will learn * Understand the vision for a unified Salesforce experience across all devices * Understand the Lightning Component Framework Architecture * See how to build Lightning Components * Know how to style Lightning Components using the Salesforce Lighting Design System * View and edit Salesforce data from Lightning using Apex controllers * Build Lightning Pages using Lightning App Builder * See the Surface Lightning Components in Lightning Experience, Salesforce1, and Salesforce Classic In Detail Built on the Salesforce App Cloud, the new Lightning Experience combines the three major components: Lightning Design System, Lightning App Builder, and Lightning Components. This book will enable you to quickly and easily create beautiful, modern, enterprise apps with Lightning. We begin by introducing you to the Lightning platform and the three components. You'll understand the vision of a unified Salesforce experience across all browsers and devices with Lightning. You'll work with standard components and build a basic layout for the application, after which you'll learn how to create more advanced custom components using the Lightning Component framework.

You'll make use of good old JavaScript to perform client-side rendering on the DOM. Then you'll modify the components to make beautiful UIs for multiple platforms that will fill your app with informative dashboards and make them look professional. Finally, you'll use the Design System to work with Salesforce data and lay out the entire page/application with the components you've built, before testing and debugging your code.

Mike Topalovich (Author)