Best Practices for Lightning Apps
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Lightning allows developers to customize their apps to a degree not previously possible - especially when using the Lightning App Builder and the new Lightning Utility Bar. In this webinar, we will introduce you to best practices for designing component-based architecture when building advanced apps that make the most out of new Lightning Experience features.
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Best Practices for Lightning Apps
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- 5. Agenda 1. Advanced Apps for Lightning Experience 2. Lightning Component Architecture 3. Lightning Utility Bar 4. Designing for Performance
- 6. Advanced Apps for Lightning Experience
- 8. Let’s define the scope… Native, built from the ground-up for Lightning Experience Some functionality exposed in Salesforce1 Combines declarative and programmatic elements Does not conform to 80% declarative / 20% programmatic UX driven mostly by custom Lightning Components Customised using declarative tools (e.g. App Builder, Metadata, Utility Bar) Examples: Significant customisation of Sales Cloud Horizontal apps such as HR, Accounting Vertical apps such as Insurance, Retail, Public Sector
- 9. What is an Advanced Lightning App? Designed from the ground-up for Lightning Experience - Some functionality exposed in Salesforce1 Combines declarative and programmatic elements - Does not conform to 80% declarative / 20% programmatic - UX driven mostly by custom Lightning Components - Customised using declarative tools (e.g. App Builder, Metadata, Utility Bar) Examples: - Significant customisation of Sales Cloud - Horizontal apps such as HR, Accounting - Vertical apps such as Real Estate, Insurance, Retail, Public Sector
- 10. How can I design this app?
- 11. Lightning toolkit Declarative Programmatic Lightning Apps Lightning Pages Lightning Utility Bar Lightning Actions Tabs + Metadata (Custom Objects, CMT) Data Model Security Model Standard Events Base/Standard Lightning Components Custom Lightning Components/Events Lightning Design System Lightning Data Service + Visualforce Apex/SOQL/SOSL/APIs
- 13. Lightning Component Architecture Purpose Markup Comments Service Components Extended/used by other components Handle server calls Shared code base Minimal Extensible = true Helper Components Event interaction Metadata caching Minimal When applicable Building Block Components Implement UX functionality at different levels of granularity Base Lightning Components Lightning Design System Building Block Components/Content Majority of code Experience Components Available in App Builder / AppExchange for Components Building Block Components/Content Simple: Lightning Data Service Advanced: Dynamic if applicable Potentially metadata-driven
- 14. Lightning Components – Release Roadmap Release Theme Components Spring ‘17 Adding depth to single record foundational components Eg: avatar, inputSearch, inputSelect, picklist, inputRichText, tile, pill, modal and notification Summer ‘17 Introducing experience and databound components Eg: inputField, outputField, list, lookup
- 15. Service Component: Example <aura:component description=”ServiceComponent" extensible="true"> <div>{!v.body}</div> </aura:component> callToServer function: Parameters: Name of Apex @AuraEnabled Method Method Parameters Action properties: setAbortable() setStorable() + ignoreExisting setBackground() Fires $A.enqueueAction(), defines callback function Component Markup Client-side Helper
- 16. Service Component: Example <c:ServiceComponent/> <c:UtilityBarMenu/> UtilityBarController UtilityBarConfig__c <c:CardListView/> CardListViewController Account Opportunity Custom__c Apex + SOQL Dynamic Apex + SOQL extends c:serviceComponent extends c:serviceComponent
- 18. Designing a custom Experience Component
- 19. Dynamic, metadata-driven Components Support your own use cases When possible support any SObject Maximise code reusability Simplify component logic Providing admins with a greater degree of flexibility… ... while simplifying App Builder experience Field to filter on Standard actions available Lightning actions available Columns to display SOQL query Card List View title Number of rows Enable pagination Reference to metadata record Metadata: App Builder attributes:
- 20. Component Tree: custom Card List View <c:CardListView/> <c:Header/> <c:Table/> <c:Footer/> <c:GenericListView/> <c:TableData/> <c:OutputField/> <c:OutputField/> <c:OutputField/> <lightning:buttonMenu/> <lightning:buttonMenu/> <lightning:buttonMenu/> <lightning:(…)/><ui:(…)/> <c:Action/> <lightning:buttonGroup/> <c:Pagination/> App Builder Attributes (incl. Metadata reference) Which type of list view? Handle UI events What data to render? Which actions? Renders data and actions Record selection Render filters? Which mass actions? Display and fire mass actions Display and fire record-level actions Links e.g. Visualforce, Record Home Page Render pagination? Or link to list view? Display and fire pagination events Component event bubbles up, handled, pagination attributes updated
- 21. How do I fire platform actions?
- 22. Firing Platform Actions Which actions to display? Metadata – pre-selected actions Display all available actions for SObject in specific context Query PlatformAction object to obtain action type e.g.: Action Type Examples Implementation Standard Action View, Edit Fire createRecord, editRecord event Visualforce Action E-mail PDF CV Fire force:navigateToURL event Lightning Action Reject Candidate Display Modal, inject Lightning Component, pass appropriate parameters
- 24. Utility Bar Overview Always available Unique per app Flexipage containing a number of Lightning Components – Standard or custom Customisable via UI (Spring ‘17) Component Properties: Height + Width Icon + Label Background Load
- 25. Dynamic Content in the Utility Bar <c:UtilityBarMenu/> UtilityBarController UtilityBarConfig__c Menu Metadata Handles c:PageChanged events <c:CardListView/> <c:PageChanged/> Application Event On click Containing e.g. help button
- 27. SOQL Queries Limit Typical of chatty custom Experience Components Cause: Calls to server on init are aggregated into same Apex transaction Mitigation: Use Lightning Data Service when possible Use cached data (for static data/metadata) Leverage Custom Metadata Types Do not count against SOQL Limits Use setBackground() on calls to server Calls processed separately, designed for lower priority calls but generally processed quickly Chain component loading by groups Last component to load in a group fires application event to load 2nd group – and so on
- 28. Performance Best Practices Enable Secure Cache and LockerService Disable Lightning Components debugging Use Lightning Data Service when possible Lazy load when appropriate Load data upon user intervention (e.g. click) Pre-load when possible Load data in background (especially static data) Use setStorable() on calls to server Local cache provides recent copy of data. Separate call to server takes place to obtain refreshed copy Implement data store for metadata/data that remains static
- 29. Demo
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