Building a Custom UI With Lightning Web Components (LWC)
Creating a UI that is intuitive and user-friendly can be challenging and time-consuming.
In this blog post, we will walk through the process of building a custom UI with LWC.
Using Data – Attributes in Lightning Web Component (LWC)
In Lightning Web Components (LWC), data can be defined and used in components through attributes.
This blog post explains how to use attributes to pass data.
Lightning Tips for Visualforce Developers
Switching from Visualforce to using Lightning is not an easy transition as there’s quite a few changes that Salesforce Developers will need to get used to.
Lightning changes a lot of the way that Salesforce works.
13 Tips for Developing Lightning Web Components
In this blog article, you will learn 13 tips for developing maintainable and performant Lightning Web Components.
25 Common Salesforce Lightning Web Component Interview Questions
During Salesforce Developer interviews, it’s common to be asked quite a few different questions so a company can guage your knowledge and at what level you are.
How Lightning Web Components Communicate
Complex applications are made up of many different components that need to work together and share data. Components must be able to communicate with one another.
There are several ways that LWC components can communicate with each other.
Introduction to Salesforce Lightning Web Components
Salesforce developed Lightning Web Components after Apex, Visualforce, and Lightning Components (Aura).
Aura missed the mark, so Salesforce went back to the drawing board…
I’m Writing a Book!
I’m really excited to announce that I am writing a book on Lightning Web Component development for Packt Publishing.
Are Salesforce Lightning Components (Aura) dead?
No! Salesforce Lightning Components (Aura Components) are likely to live on for quite a few years. I do think that the Lightning Web Component will eventually lead to the Lightning Component falling out of use.
Should I still be building Lightning Components?
There is no requirement right now to completely rebuild Aura components because Aura and Lightning Web Components can work together. They are completely interoperable.
Caching Data Within Aura & Lightning Web Components
The Lightning Data Service really simplifies our development within Aura and within Lightning Web Components.
Implementing caching within Salesforce Lightning is really easy!
Get Record Id in Lightning Web Component
Once you know how to do it, getting the current Record Id in a lightning component or lightning aura component is pretty easy. We simply need to implement the force:hasRecordId interface in the lightning component.
Salesforce: How to use the lighting record edit form
The lightning record edit form is a really great new addition to Salesforce Lightning. The lighting record edit form is a wrapper component that accepts a recordId and can display fields and labels associated to that record.
Custom Submit Button for a lightning:recordEditForm
The lightning:recordEditForm allows us to create a custom looking form that can interact with Salesforce records, or create new Salesforce records.
In this blog post, we’ll go over how to create a custom submit button for a lightning:recordEditForm
Intro to Lightning Data Service
Lightning Data Service is a game changer for Salesforce Developers and Lightning Components (Aura) because it reduces the amount of work required by developers.
Awesome Resources for Learning Salesforce Lightning
At Dreamforce 2014, Salesforce announced they were changing the Salesforce User Interface to make it simpler to use. The new User Interface is called Salesforce Lightning. In my blog post, What is Salesforce Lightning I cover a lot more about what it is and how development differs from using Apex and Visualforce.
If you don’t have any experience with JavaScript, it will make programming Salesforce Lightning a lot more difficult. I strong recommend having a look at my blog post Resources for Learning JavaScript before you dive into learning Salesforce Lightning because JavaScript is what’s used predominantly in the controller now.
In the last two years or so, there’s been a steady increase in the number of resources that have become available for learning lightning. I launched my first lightning component as part of an AppExchange product about a year ago and have been doing lots of lightning, react and node development since then. I believe that all Salesforce Developers will need to learn and master javascript to avoid becoming irrelevant and unemployable in the next couple of years. …
Using Promises in Salesforce Lightning
It’s no secret that Salesforce Lightning is changing the way we develop for Salesforce. At Dreamforce 2014, Salesforce introduced Salesforce Lightning and it is proving to change a lot of things we do on the platform and I’m sure it will make things a lot better for users in the long term. If you aren’t already familiar with Salesforce Lightning then you need to read my post called What is Salesforce Lightning.…
How to Add Third Party JavaScript Libraries to Salesforce Lightning
It’s not secret that Salesforce Lightning is a huge shift away from Visualforce and Apex, I feel like I’ve had to relearn years of development and lean heavily on my javascript development experienced. If you aren’t sure what Salesforce Lightning is or aren’t sure why it’s a huge shift, you need to read my blog article called what is salesforce lightning.
What is a Third Party Library
Third party libraries allow developers to build quickly and take advantage of other people’s abstractions to avoid having to spend time working around browser issues or etc. In JavaScript, third party libraries and code reuse are all of the rage. A third party library is basically anything your team personally write and require for your project to work. …
How to Rename a Salesforce Aura Component
Out of the box, Salesforce doesn’t provide an a way to rename a Salesforce Lightning Component (Aura), but don’t worry there is an easier way than creating a new one and copying everything over.
5 Resources for Learning JavaScript
Traditionally when somebody said JavaScript, they were talking about a language that just did stuff on the client side like form validation or the occasional animation or UI enhancement. For years now, JavaScript has been all of the rage. Most new technology startups are now using JavaScript on the frontend, and on their backend services. …