Learning Salesforce Lightning Application Development

Build, design, and style beautiful and informative applications on the Salesforce Lightning platform

Key Features
Build and Test Lightning Components that enhance application usability and adaptability
Apply Security Best Practices to your Custom Lightning Components
Design Lightning Components for Salesforce UIs such as Lightning Pages, Salesforce 1 Application, Communities, and more.
Book Description
Built on the Salesforce App Cloud, the new Salesforce Lightning Experience combines three major components: Lightning Design System, Lightning App Builder, and Lightning Components, to provide an enhanced user experience. This book will enable you to quickly create modern, enterprise apps with Lightning Component Framework.

You will start by building simple Lightning Components and understanding the Lightning Components architecture. The chapters cover the basics of Lightning Component Framework semantics and syntax, the security features provided by Locker Service, and use of third-party libraries inside Lightning Components. The later chapters focus on debugging, performance tuning, testing using Lightning Testing Services, and how to publish Lightning Components on Salesforce AppExchange.

What you will learn
Understand Lightning Components architecture
Learn Locker security best practices
Debug and Improve performance of your Lightning Components
Use third-party libraries along with Lightning Component Framework
Learn how to publish Lightning Components on AppExchange
Use Lightning Out to take your Lightning Components outside the Salesforce platform
Who this book is for
This book is for Salesforce developers or developers from other platforms who are familiar with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and want to build and test Salesforce Lightning components. No knowledge of Salesforce Lightning is required.

Table of Contents
Getting started with Lightning Component Framework
Exploring Salesforce DX
Working with Lightning Component Building Blocks
Lightning JavaScript API
Understanding Events In Lightning Component Framework
Lightning Data Services and Base Components
Using External JavaScript Libraries Inside Lightning Components
Performance Tuning Your Lightning Component
Debugging Lightning Components
Taking Lightning Components Outside Salesforce Using Lightning Out
Lightning Flows
Making Components Available For Salesforce Mobile and Communities
Lightning Navigation and Lightning Console APIs
Unit Testing Components Using Lightning Testing Service
Publishing Lightning Components On AppExchange