Salesforce’s Lightning component system is quite a robust framework where you can build full pledged single-page applications in a heartbeat. I especially like it’s built-in SLDS (styles), so all you have to really think about is the logic of your application. In this walk trough, we’re building a real life map application with Lightning. We’re […]

So our Company wanted to build a Timeline. One that shows our projects throughout the years, decades even. One that is sleek, modern and responsive. We’re already running WordPress, and have Bootstrap installed. So this shouldn’t be too bad. It turns out – it was a pretty fun project to build. Our in house designers […]

This is a tutorial on how to fetch Salesforce Data from an external NodeJS application. To be more specific, we’re grabbing records in a SF custom object via Heroku Connect. Note that Heroku Connect utilizes an internal Postgres Database, to keep a “replica” of the data in Salesforce. Heroku Connect does a “poll” of this […]

I had the challenge of building an input form that brings up a list of cities as you type. One that has the coordinates of each city – because I’ll need to enter that into a map. An “auto-suggest” or “auto-complete” city input – inside a custom form inside Salesforce. It turns out, that it […]

I’ve decided to do some write up on Salesforce – especially Lightning development. Lightning is basically Salesforce’s proprietary JavaScript and CSS Framework bundled into one. It’s a component-based system, mobile friendly, with the power of a server side language (Apex), just in case you need it. In the following tutorials, you might see a “helper.callServer()” […]

I had just gotten back from a 3 day Developer Bootcamp and 2 day conference called TrailHeadDX. Our company is making an aggressive move towards Salesforce and they want all the developers to be all hands on deck. So I am forecasting some Salesforce tutorials or writeups in the coming months.  So far I am […]