How to Build Salesforce Apps through Lightning

Salesforce users have been complaining majorly about the User Interface being clunky. The web has moved to responsive design, and the Salesforce UI did not evolve at the same rate, initially. This made Salesforce reconsider how their platform is designed and how apps are built on it. All this leads to the launch of a new platform that Salesforce has named as ‘Lightning’ and is also called “The future of CRM.” Lightening is designed to bring additional analytics and in-line intelligence to drive more sales and is an entirely new implementation of Salesforce. This is done by focusing solely on the application logic and democratizing app creation on the platform. The significant changes that have been brought with the Lightning platform for Salesforce Lightning Developers:

1. A New Information Architecture

Relevant information is surfaced for each screen, streamlining process and workflows, with Lightning. The ‘Activity Feed,’ e.g., surfaces the latest updates assigned to a Sales Representative from all accounts. To see everything going on with a customer without going to different pages in the application, one can use the ‘Contextual Hovers. To get the bird-eye view across all of your deals, there is the ‘Opportunity Board.’ Finally, there are customizable dashboards that allow pick and choose what data one would like to have at fingertips, even if it’s not available by default. The end users get more power in their hands, which will turn into a more satisfying experience for the Sales team.

2. A new Design Language

Irrespective of the device, all the new features available within the UI work in the same way. For this, Lightning delivers a new design language that promises a consumer-like experience across every device, browser, and operating system. This is, in turn, useful in making Salesforce a responsive platform.

3. A new way to build Apps

The number of custom apps developed on the Salesforce platform has increased tremendously because of Lightning. Even the non-developer users are now able to build apps as Salesforce has dramatically democratized the app development process. By only using the drag-and-drop visual interface of Lightning Components, any user can start building apps. To provide more flexibility to how the system is designed and making it easy for the previous complex workflows, Lightning apps can be built as standalone apps on top of existing Salesforce applications or Salesforce1 mobile applications.

It’s an effortless and straightforward task to build basic applications. It does simple customizations, but it becomes inevitable to design complex applications with intricate application logic if one is into this business. It may also happen that one does not have the talent or bandwidth internally to develop these apps on their own. If it is done incorrectly, one could end up building incorrect apps without gaining the desired results incompatible with each other. This makes it more beneficial and safe to work with a Salesforce Lightning Developer so that one does not waste time and energy in building inappropriate apps.

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