Salesforce Development Tutorial(LWC): How to Generate a Word Document from a Lightning Web Component
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Salesforce Development Tutorial(LWC): How to Generate a Word Document from a Lightning Web Component

[sm-youtube-subscribe] Why Create an LWC that can Generate Word Documents? This is a little more self explanatory than many of the blog posts I do, but let’s go over some things. You typically wanna create this because the business has a need (for one reason or another) to generate a word doc. I’ve had businesses…

Salesforce Development Tutorial: How to use the Safe Navigation Operator in Apex to reduce the amount of null checking in your codebase
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Salesforce Development Tutorial: How to use the Safe Navigation Operator in Apex to reduce the amount of null checking in your codebase

Why use the Safe Navigation Operator?? My guy, this is the best thing Salesforce has added to the Apex language in forever! Embrace it! To elaborate on that though, let me hit you with this thrilling sales pitch. Just imagine a late night commercial selling you garbage, but the garbage is actually good. Are you…

Salesforce Development Tutorial: How to use Named Credentials to simplify your Apex Salesforce Integrations
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Salesforce Development Tutorial: How to use Named Credentials to simplify your Apex Salesforce Integrations

Why should you bother using Named Credentials? In short, it’s gonna save you a bunch of time, code and unnecessary configuration, especially when you are authenticating using OAuth. Named credentials basically simplify the authentication portion of your callouts to to external services and allow you do it declaratively through configuration. No matter how hardcode a…

Salesforce Development Tutorial (LWC): How to Setup the LWC Local Development Server
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Salesforce Development Tutorial (LWC): How to Setup the LWC Local Development Server

Why setup the Local Development Server? After you use it a couple times I promise you won’t ever ask this question again, lol. It makes your LWC development SO MUCH FASTER!!! I mean it might actually be Lightning Fast! (I’m sorry, but I’m not letting that joke go…). If you’ve ever developed LWC’s directly in…

Salesforce Development Tutorial (LWC): How to create Custom Lightning Web Component Utility Modules

Salesforce Development Tutorial (LWC): How to create Custom Lightning Web Component Utility Modules

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…

Salesforce Development Tutorial: How to Implement a Trigger Framework
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Salesforce Development Tutorial: How to Implement a Trigger Framework

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…

Salesforce Development Tutorial: How to use the SFDX Scanner Salesforce CLI Plugin for Static Code Analysis
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Salesforce Development Tutorial: How to use the SFDX Scanner Salesforce CLI Plugin for Static Code Analysis

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…

Salesforce Development Tutorial: How to Setup Uncrustify to automatically format your code in Visual Studio Code
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Salesforce Development Tutorial: How to Setup Uncrustify to automatically format your code in Visual Studio Code

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…

Salesforce Development Tutorial: How to Setup Visual Studio Code for Salesforce Development
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Salesforce Development Tutorial: How to Setup Visual Studio Code for Salesforce Development

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…

Salesforce Development (LWC): How to Communicate between Aura Components and Lightning Web Components Using Custom Events and the Api Decorator
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Salesforce Development (LWC): How to Communicate between Aura Components and Lightning Web Components Using Custom Events and the Api Decorator

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…