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Learning Salesforce Lightning Application Development

You're reading from Learning Salesforce Lightning Application Development

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Published in Jul 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787124677

Pages 458 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Author (1):

Mohit Shrivatsava

Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Title Page

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Foreword

Contributors

Preface

1. Introduction to the Lightning Component Framework

2. Exploring Salesforce DX

3. Lightning Component Building Blocks

4. The Lightning JavaScript API

5. Events in the Lightning Component Framework

6. Lightning Data Service and Base Components

7. Using External JavaScript Libraries in Lightning Components

8. Debugging Lightning Components

9. Performance Tuning Your Lightning Component

10. Taking Lightning Components out of Salesforce Using Lightning Out

11. Lightning Flows

12. Making Components Available for Salesforce Mobile and Communities

13. Lightning Navigation and Lightning Console APIs

14. Unit Testing Lightning Components

15. Publishing Lightning Components on AppExchange

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Installing the Salesforce DX CLI

The Salesforce CLI enables you to do the following major tasks from the command line:

Create and manage Scratch Orgs
Push and pull code and configuration from source control to Salesforce scratch Orgs

Load sample datasets into scratch Orgs
Assign Permission sets
Install and uninstall managed package applications from the command line

To install the CLI, visit the Salesforce CLI website at https://developer.Salesforce.com/tools/sfdxcli.

Depending on your operating system, you can download the executable. The following screenshot shows the selection screen for the installation:

Once your installation is done, make sure to type the sfdx command in your terminal to ensure that the Salesforce DX CLI is installed. The following screenshot shows a successful installation on a Mac Terminal:

In the next few sections, we will explore some basic commands to familiarize ourselves with the CLI commands. Specifically, we will explore how to connect to the developer hub, how to...

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Authors (1)

Mohit Shrivatsava

Mohit is a Python programmer with a keen interest in the field of information security. He has completed his Bachelor's degree in technology in computer science from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, and a Master's in engineering (2012) in computer science from Thapar University, Patiala. He is a CEH, ECSA from EC-Council USA. He has worked in IBM, Teramatrix (Startup), and Sapient. He currently doing a Ph.D. from Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology under Dr. Maninder Singh. He has published several articles in national and international magazines. He is the author of Python Penetration Testing Essentials, Python: Penetration Testing for Developers and Learn Python in 7 days, also by Packt. For more details on the author, you can check the following user name mohitraj.cs

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