SFDX – Salesforce Command Line Interface (CLI) Commands – Part 1

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In this blog, I would like to share with you the available Salesforce CLI Commands. CLI Commands will reduce your effort in creating and configuring the Apex, Visualforce, Lightning components. Refer to my previous blogs for setting up the SFDX with visual studio code IDE.
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Deploy & Retrieve metadata using Salesforce DX and VS Code

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Visual studio code is one of the most featured, powerful code editors in open source platform developed using Javascript frameworks, node.js, and electron. In this blog, I would like to share with you the steps to deploy and retrieve the metadata from the Salesforce developer, production and sandbox orgs using the SFDX and my favourite Visual Studio Code.

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Configure Salesforce Developer Experience (SFDX) on Visual Studio Code

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How to Get the Browsing Device Information in Lightning?

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Lightning mainly focuses on the user experience on the web and mobile interfaces. So, most of the scenarios we should need to know the information of the browser to align the design with respect to the device browser.  In this post, I would like to discuss, how we can detect the browsing device information in a lightning component.

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Extending Lightning Components

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In lightning, we have developed multiple components for different functionalities. All custom components include a lot of boilerplate code and we will have to exclude most of the redundant code by building generic function in the helper part of aura bundle. However, it wouldn’t be the perfect solution to avoid the redundancy as we will have to do the same for other components as well. For example, Communication between an apex controller and a component is written separately for each custom component, even if the components are related to each other. Are there any mechanisms available in lightning for abstracting the boilerplate into one component for others to make use of it?

From my experience, this can be solved by Inheritance as it makes the code more structured and flexible. The Salesforce Apex framework supports inheritance similar to what we see in object-oriented programming languages like Java and others. Is Aura framework built to support inheritance?

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Custom Lightning Page Template / Layout

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In this blog, I would like to discuss you about how to create a custom lightning page template or layout using SFDX.

Create Lightning component

Lightning component resides inside a lightning project so create a project and follow the below steps. If you are not aware of project creation then go through my blog.

  • Create a lightning component in Visual Studio Code
    • sfdx force:lightning:component:create -n <component name> -d <location>
    • Modify the design page to show the custom attribute in the layout selection or page layout editor

Push Code into scratch Org

  • Create a scratch org
    • sfdx force:org:create -s -f config/project-scratch-def.json -a <alias name>
  • List all connected orgs including scratch org with Visual Studio Code
    • sfdx force:org:list –all
  • finally, push the code into scratch org created

Create a page named My Bike  in the Lightning App Builder.

  • Go to setup –> Lightning App Builder -> New
  • Select App Page in the options
  • Then, fill the field with your Page name and click Next
  • Select your custom or standard layout
  • Our custom three column layout displayed under Custom section
  • Then, Click Finish button to include the custom or standard component in the layout
  • Click Save and Activate your page to the preferred profiles and apps

 

https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/component-library/bundle/lightning:appHomeTemplate

Each template component should implement only one template interface. Template components shouldn’t implement any other type of interface, such as flexipage:availableForAllPageTypes or 

force:hasRecordId. A template component can’t multi-task as a regular Lightning component. It’s either a template, or it’s not.

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