Salesforce Developer I Certification: Learn the Basics of Apex, Lightning Web Components, and Flow (Certification Study Companion Series)

This book is a comprehensive learning guide tailored for professionals who primarily work as non-coders within the Salesforce ecosystem. By providing clear and practical insights, it serves as a roadmap to inspire individuals, regardless of their coding background, to embark on a systematic journey towards acquiring programming skills while navigating the Salesforce platform. This understanding of programming fundamentals is not only valuable for professional growth but also to cover exam preparation for certification as a Salesforce Developer I. Because it includes materials and practical code examples specifically tailored to the exam preparation. In addition the book equips readers with the practical knowledge and confidence to leverage potential of Salesforce’s capabilities. This book covers a range of important topics, including Salesforce platform fundamentals and architecture, automatization tools, Apex as a programming language with code examples like triggers, methods, SOQL, SOSL, testing, Lightning web components, deployment tools, and various other subjects, including declarative programming methods by using Flow. Many of these topics are interconnected with relevant code examples or explanations tailored for the Developer I exam as well. Due to retirement and replacement of Workflow and Process Builder with Flow as a more universally applicable declarative tool in recent releases, it is essential to offer an integrated understanding of this context in relation to Apex programmatic methods. It helps for a better understanding of choosing the right methods and tools in certain use cases. Additionally, it’s important to provide code examples and explain the structure to help beginners grasp the new Lightning Web Components (LWC) framework as a separate part from the classic Apex methodology. What you will learn Valuable insights into Salesforce Apex programming and Lightning Web Components in a straightforward and structured manner. Detailed explanations alongside numerous code examples tailored for non-coders. Salesforce platform fundamentals, the structure of Apex and Lightning Components, and declarative programming, alongside an overview of the capabilities provided by native Salesforce and additional tools. Table of Contents About the Author About the Technical Reviewer Preface Chapter 1: Salesforce Fundamentals and Architecture 1.1 The Basic Architecture as Model-View-Controller (MVC) 1.2 Multi-tenant Environment and Its Implications 1.3 Salesforce Clouds and Extensions Chapter 2: Objects and Data Management 2.1 Standard and Customer Objects 2.2 Fields and Relationships 2.3 Data Management Tools Chapter 3: Salesforce Automatization Tools 3.1 Quick Actions, Page Layouts, and Record Types 3.2 Validation Roles and Approval Processes 3.3 Declarative Programming with Flows 3.4 Flow Components 3.5 Building a Flow 3.6 Invocable Methods in Flows Chapter 4: Apex Programming 4.1 Apex Programming Language Syntax 4.2 Anonymous Window in Developer Console 4.3 Variables Data Types 4.4 Collections 4.5 Operators and Control Statements Chapter 5: Data Manipulation Language (DML) 5.1 DML Statements and Operations 5.2 Classes, Interfaces, and Methods 5.3 Schema Classes and Methods 5.4 Database.Batchable Interface 5.5 NullPointerException Chapter 6: SOQL and SOSL 6.1 Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL) 6.2 Salesforce Object Search Language (SOSL) 6.3 Create Queries with Best Practice Chapter 7: Triggers and Bulk Processing 7.1 Triggers and Their Execution Context 7.2 Create Triggers with Context Variables 7.3 Bulk Processing for Large Datasets Chapter 8: Access Control and Permissions 8.1 Execution Context 8.2 Using the Schema.DescribeFieldResult Class 8.3 Implementing Security.stripInaccessible() Method Chapter 9: Testing 9.1 How to Write Test Cases 9.2 Try-Catch Method 9.3 Test Data Factory 9.4 @TestSetup Method 9.5 Test.startTest() and Test.stopTest() Methods Chapter 10: Salesforce Developer Experience (DX) 10.1 Salesforce Environments 10.2 Visual Studio Code and Salesforce CLI 10.3 How to Install Chapter 11: Salesforce Lightning Platform 11.1 Lightning Component Framework 11.2 Introducing the Lightning Web Components (LWC) 11.3 How to Create LWC 11.4 Deployment in Salesforce Org 11.5 Summary Index