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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.

January 24, 2023
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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.

December 20, 2022
Programming

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...

December 6, 2022
Programming

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.

October 16, 2022
Salesforce Lightning
Programming

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.

August 9, 2022
Salesforce Lightning
Programming

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.

August 2, 2022
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Programming

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!

January 1, 2019
Programming

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.

February 13, 2018
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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.

February 6, 2018
Salesforce Lightning
Programming

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

January 9, 2018
Salesforce Lightning
Programming

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.

November 14, 2017
Using Promises in Salesforce Lightning
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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…

October 11, 2017
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Programming

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.

June 6, 2017
5 Resources for Learning JavaScript
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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…

March 24, 2017