SoC and the Apex Common Library Tutorial Series Part 1: Introduction to the Separation of Concerns Design Principle
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SoC and the Apex Common Library Tutorial Series Part 1: Introduction to the Separation of Concerns Design Principle

ByCoding With The Force Inc

What is the Separation of Concerns Design Principle? Basically separation of concerns is the practice of putting logical boundaries on your code. Putting these logical boundaries on your code helps make your code easier to understand, easier to maintain and much more flexible when it needs to be altered (and every code base ever has…

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

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[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

ByCoding With The Force Inc

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

ByCoding With The Force Inc

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

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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…