Salesforce Lightning Platform Enterprise Architecture

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This comprehensive guide is essential for Lightning Platform architects, offering best practices and tailored examples. It focuses on building integrated, scalable, and robust applications that meet enterprise-level customer demands. Utilizing the Lightning Component framework, it enables the delivery of modern, responsive user experiences across multiple devices via Lightning Experience and Salesforce Mobile, while also extending applications with access to external services and AI. Salesforce Lightning serves as a secure and scalable platform for building, deploying, customizing, and upgrading applications. The guide explores the architecture of the Lightning platform, detailing features and best practices to ensure applications keep pace with customer needs and platform innovations. It covers the popular aPaaS offering from Salesforce, illustrating how to create enterprise-grade apps that leverage productivity features and enhance extensibility and customization. Readers will learn advanced architectural design patterns, including Separation of Concerns and Dependency Integration, while working with Apex, JavaScript, and Lightning Web Components. A sample app demonstrates effective patterns for sustainable application development. The book also introduces Salesforce DX for app development, publication, and monitoring, along with CI/CD tools like Jenkins. By the end, readers will be equipped to develop effective business a