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, the Salesforce1 application, and communities
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 Lightning component architecture. In the initial chapters, you'll cover the basics of Lightning Component Framework semantics and syntax. You'll then delve into the security features provided by Locker Service, which forms an integral part of the Salesforce model and works to prevent components from accessing data from other components in different namespaces. You'll also cover the use of third-party libraries inside Lightning Components and understand the rich functionalities they have to offer. The later chapters will focus on debugging, performance tuning, and testing using Lightning testing services, which will then help you to make Lightning Components ready for publishing on Salesforce AppExchange.

By the end of this book, you will have the skills you need to design and build components on your own to meet custom component needs.

What you will learn
Understand Lightning component architecture
Study locker security best practices
Debug and improve the performance of your Lightning components
Use third-party libraries along with the Lightning Component framework
Discover how to publish Lightning components on AppExchange
Use Lightning Out to run Lightning component apps outside
Who this book is for
This book is designed 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. Prior knowledge of Salesforce Lightning is not 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