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Play by Play: Understanding Lightning Web Components for non-Salesforce Developers

by Don Robins and Adam Daw

This course provides an introduction to the Salesforce Platform for standard web developers, and describes how the Web Component specification is implemented inside the Salesforce ecosystem.

What you'll learn

Play by Play is a series in which top technologists work through a problem in real time, unrehearsed, and unscripted. In this course, Play by Play: Understanding Lightning Web Components for non-Salesforce Developers, Adam Daw and Don Robins discuss the Web Component standard in 2019, Salesforce Existing Offerings, how to leverage Lightning Web Components in Salesforce, and then introduce more complex implementations of Lightning Web Components. Along the way we acquaint the audience with foundational Salesforce developer technologies such as working with Salesforce data, the Apex programming language, the Lightning Locker Service, and more.

About the authors

Don Robins is a well known Salesforce MVP, instructor, author, and speaker. A custom business application developer for more decades than he cares to admit, he focuses on Salesforce technical instruction and knowledge sharing. Certified as a Platform II Developer and an award winning Salesforce Instructor, he's presented and taught at annual Dreamforce conferences since 2010. He delivers Salesforce developer classes and workshops around the US and abroad, and manages a team of instructors ... more

Adam Michael Daw is Head of Engineering at CoVenture, and the Ottawa Salesforce Developer Group Leader. He has been working with the Salesforce Platform since 2008, and spends most of his time thinking about Enterprise Application Development, Systems Automation and Emerging Technologies.

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