Why create Utility Modules for Lightning Web Components? If you’re asking this question, I have feeling you don’t often utilize utility modules (or utility classes) anywhere… so let me be the first to welcome you to this absolutely magical world of utilities. They will make your life easier, code updates simpler and your code base…
Why use a Trigger Framework? There are a couple big reasons why you would want to implement a trigger handler. Let’s check them out below: 1) It makes your triggers way easier to test. By putting your logic in your trigger handler, instead of your trigger you allow yourself a much simpler path to testing…
Why Use Static Code Analysis Tools? There are two major reasons to use static code analysis tools: 1) They make you a better developer. These industry standard rules exist for a reason. To make code clean, modular and easy for all the developers that come after you to deal with. So be a kewl guy…
Why would you want to setup Auto Code Formatting? Aside from the fact that it’s both magical and amazing, it also enables you to easily do a couple things: 1) If you get onboarded to a project with a horrific looking codebase with nightmarish formatting, you can fix that by running a single command on…
Why use an IDE? First things first… after you use an IDE you will never ask this question again. IT MAKES YOUR LIFE SO MUCH EASIER! Please take the time to leverage an IDE when doing development. Your work will take a fraction of the time it would take otherwise. Ever wish your code editor…
Why Would You Want to Communicate Between Component Types? There are a bunch of reasons it’s beneficial to communicate between component types but the most common ones that I have found are the following: 1) You’re building a new component and realize you need functionality that only Aura Components support, but it’s a very small…
Why On Earth Would We Ever Build Trigger Bypasses? This is an excellent question and one I wondered myself… until my team and I had to do a monstrous 50,000,000 record load into Salesforce for a deployment, lol. I was stumped… how on earth could I ever pull this off without taking days or weeks…
Why Would We Want Our Process Builders to Bypass Our Triggers? If you didn’t know process builders fire your triggers every single time they make an update to a record or insert a new record. If you have 5 different update actions in your process builders that means you could potentially fire your triggers 5…
What is Custom Metadata and why would we create a configurable Lightning Web Component? Custom Metadata is a wonderful thing. You set it up much like a custom object, but you use it for an entirely different purpose. Typically you use custom metadata much like you would utilize a config file in many other development…
How to Render Elements of a Custom Community Password Reset and/or Welcome Email Conditionally Alllllrighhtttttttt, so if you didn’t read the first blog post, you might get a bit lost, so be sure to check that out here. If you have already read it, let’s figure out first why the hell you would ever want…