I’ve been building Salesforce applications for some time now and we’re always faced with the same struggle when in comes to CICD. See, we write code locally in our machines. Then we use SFDX to push to our sandboxes – this is so we can see the changes, as well as other users test what […]

Developing custom solutions for Salesforce has some challenges. One of them is having Environment Variables for your application, that can be deployed from org to org without having to change them. We’ve been using Custom Metadata Types (CMT), but once it get to another environment such as production, we end up having to change it. […]

Salesforce’s server side language is called Apex. Apex is a strongly typed, object-oriented language that many say looks like Java. The language is strongly tied to the database and other objects in Salesforce, as well as its front end counterpart – Lightning. As a side note, having written loosely typed languages all my life, Apex […]

Oh no, another JavaScript framework to learn. At first, it sounds bad. But its a good thing actually. Because being stagnant in coding is bad. Always learning new things is the way to go. Besides, newer frameworks (especially in JavaScript) show what older frameworks could’ve done better. This is the case with Lightning Web Components […]

Let’s build something every web application needs in their results page: Pagination (aka Paging). This technique is necessary so we don’t bombard our users with all the items in our result page. Instead, we show them in “chunks” or “sets” of results. This is a very simplistic example – all we’re doing is a set […]

What we’re building: An input field that can be duplicated (repeated) as part of a form. This is particularly useful when you want to capture information that you want to separate in different lines, and you don’t really want to use a textarea. This way, we’re forcing our user’s to enter a value per input.  […]