Lightning Component Design: Thinking in Components

Lightning Component
Design
Thinking in Components
Barry Hughes
Senior Developer, Blue Wave Group
barry.hughes@bluewavegro
up.eu
@devinthecloud
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Blue Wave Group and Me
@bluewavegroup.eu
Based in the UK and Ireland

Salesforce Silver Cloud Alliance Partner
30 Employees
• 20 Certified Salesforce Professionals
• 11 Salesforce University Instructors
IBM Partner (since 2000)

Who are you?
Intended Audience

You are familiar with Salesforce Lightning Design System
Have created Lightning Components
Retrieved data for a Lightning Components via apex
Have customers that have requirements to satisfy
DEV601 – Programming Lightning Components
Topics included in the course

Component Basics Improvements since Spring 16
Surfacing Components (SF1) LEX, Record Home Pages & Utility Bar!
Creating and Destroying Components Caching Data & Applications
{!v.Body} design patterns SLDS included in the Lightning Framework
Application and Component Events Lightning Base Components
Inheriting from other Components Comprehensive Form Validation
Form Validation and theming 30% less code to complete course exercises.
Developers can deliver better Lightning functionality than they could 12 months ago
Forming Solutions For Customers
From a blank screen to a solution
Most Training material available on Lightning Component

Development is very workshop-like in nature.
To Deliver Components to Customers, there are a

number of considerations
User Interface & Customer Acceptance
Component Design & Data Integration
Creating Bridges between Administrators and Customers

User Interface Design
Rapid Prototyping using SLDS, HTML and SASS
An excellent tool introduced at Dreamforce 16 by the SalesforceUX team
Workshop: http://sfdcworkshop.com/workshop/rapid-prototyping-with-slds
Github: https://github.com/salesforce-ux/design-system-starter-kit
Lightning Design System Starter Kit
Has replaced Balsamiq Mockups in making mock screens for our clients
Provides a near-final mock-up of the solution that is easily changed

Provides HTML and mark-up for the Components
Demo
Can be deployed to Heroku (with Username and Password authentication) or customers to view,
discuss and provide feedback before development starts.
Webinar: https://youtu.be/oJm2nQz-tKM
Nunjucks: https://mozilla.github.io/nunjucks/
Updated in Spring 17
Sharing json data among pages has
been added.
Any improvements to SLDS can be added

(eg) Utility Bar
Component Design
Factors to Consider

Structural Components Re-usability is the primary reason to create a
component.
..but Cost/Benefit and Deliverability are factors
Components should be as small as possible
too!
Sandbox a specific function
 Simplify your code!
Development of components (and events) takes
time (and cost)
Allows developers to separate out work
Should make testing more efficient Re-usability  where can my component be
useful?
Component Design
Thought Process of building out a Component Hierarchy
Structural Components
Component Design
Thought Process of building out a Component Hierarchy
Repeatable elements
Component Design
Re-usability Use Case: The ‘All’ Checkbox
Checkbox Group code

available at
github.com/barryhughes1
- also available as a tutorial

Developers! Build Bridges!
... Code for the overall solution
The Setup menu remains the Salesforce platform’s key feature set
Developers are required when a requirement cannot be provided via the setup menu
The answer is no longer – ‘Make a Visualforce Page’!

• Replacing entire screens.
• Maintenance costs.
• Breaks the relationship between the Administrator and the Customer.
With Lightning, a Developers Role is now to enhance the solution

and not replace it with customised code.
Developers! Build Bridges!
Best Practices Resources
Lightning Component Development
Modularizing Code in Lightning Components http://sforce.co/2qk2DiL

Advanced Lightning Apps http://sforce.co/2h6WulP
Component Performance http://sforce.co/2qashpf
Caching Data with Storable Actions: http://sforce.co/2phEqei
Toolkit for Creating and Deploying Bots: http://sforce.co/2oKimKs
Using Third-Party Libraries http://sforce.co/2m5jbJ1
Communicating with Visualforce http://sforce.co/2phEuux
Data Service & Base Components http://bit.ly/2pSv0Yn
DEV601 Programming Lightning Components http://sforce.co/2qnHo2f

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Based in the UK and Ireland

IBM Partner (since 2000)

Creating and Destroying Components Caching Data & Applications

{!v.Body} design patterns SLDS included in the Lightning Framework

Application and Component Events Lightning Base Components

Inheriting from other Components Comprehensive Form Validation

Most Training material available on Lightning Component

To Deliver Components to Customers, there are a

Creating Bridges between Administrators and Customers

An excellent tool introduced at Dreamforce 16 by the SalesforceUX team

Provides a near-final mock-up of the solution that is easily changed

Any improvements to SLDS can be added

Checkbox Group code

- also available as a tutorial

The answer is no longer – ‘Make a Visualforce Page’!

With Lightning, a Developers Role is now to enhance the solution

Modularizing Code in Lightning Components http://sforce.co/2qk2DiL

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​ Based in the UK and Ireland

​ IBM Partner (since 2000)

​Creating and Destroying Components ​ Caching Data & Applications

​{!v.Body} design patterns ​ SLDS included in the Lightning Framework

​Application and Component Events ​ Lightning Base Components

​Inheriting from other Components ​ Comprehensive Form Validation

​ Most Training material available on Lightning Component

To Deliver Components to Customers, there are a

​ Creating Bridges between Administrators and Customers

An excellent tool introduced at Dreamforce 16 by the SalesforceUX team

​ Provides a near-final mock-up of the solution that is easily changed

​ Any improvements to SLDS can be added

​ Checkbox Group code

​ - also available as a tutorial

​ The answer is no longer – ‘Make a Visualforce Page’!

With Lightning, a Developers Role is now to enhance the solution

​ Modularizing Code in Lightning Components http://sforce.co/2qk2DiL

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Based in the UK and Ireland

IBM Partner (since 2000)

Creating and Destroying Components Caching Data & Applications

{!v.Body} design patterns SLDS included in the Lightning Framework

Application and Component Events Lightning Base Components

Inheriting from other Components Comprehensive Form Validation

Most Training material available on Lightning Component

Creating Bridges between Administrators and Customers

Provides a near-final mock-up of the solution that is easily changed

Any improvements to SLDS can be added

Checkbox Group code

- also available as a tutorial

The answer is no longer – ‘Make a Visualforce Page’!

Modularizing Code in Lightning Components http://sforce.co/2qk2DiL