Mixed Shadow Mode
Featured in the Winter ‘23 release notes, Mixed Shadow Mode enables you to use the well-known JavaScript shadow DOM in older browsers where the synthetic shadow polyfill is applied. This polyfill is maintained and used in older versions of Microsoft Edge. By using it, you...
An Introduction to Salesforce Functions
Salesforce Functions, first launched under the nickname “Evergreen”, was released on March 1st, 2022. This new feature gives unprecedented access to the Salesforce platform’s functionality by allowing developers to write code in their preferred programming language. What makes Functions special is the fact that your...
LWC Unit Testing with Jest
If you are familiar with the Salesforce ecosystem, you are well aware of how crucial it is to test almost all of the features you intend to use or deploy. This is also applicable to the CRM's most recent development model, Lightning Web Components. Although...
Changing field types
Storing data in different types of fields that Salesforce provides is a basic task. However, depending on the project and the deviations that cannot be foreseen at the beginning of the same, people may need to change some data types in order to adapt the...
Code Builder
Powered by its own virtual machine, Code Builder is one of Salesforce’s newest additions to enhance developer productivity, by unleashing the power of Salesforce Extensions for VS Code and offering the same great features as the desktop version - all while running on the cloud....
Salesforce GraphQL API
During the last few years, REST APIs have been the most relevant way to communicate between systems, as Salesforce relies on its necessity to integrate with other multiple systems. However, the CRM introduced the GraphQL API with the Summer '22 release, a fresh and effective...
Hyperforce
Introduction Hyperforce is Salesforce’s next-generation infrastructure architecture. It is a reimagining of the company's platform architecture that was created to deliver the Salesforce Customer 360 safely and effectively. Salesforce aimed to create and provide the most pertinent solutions. They also sought to secure the organization's related...
Illuminated Cloud Log Analyzer vs Apex Log Analyzer
Debugging is one of the most essential and fundamental tools of any programmatic development, if not the most. In Salesforce, in order to deploy any new Apex-developed features, at least 75% of code coverage has to be met - this can be achieved by building...
DevOps Center
DevOps Center, a much-awaited feature, was officially released last June in Open Beta. This promising solution will enable change and release management, whatever team members’ abilities are on a developing scale, from low-code to pro-code. In this article, we will be discussing how this new feature...
Unit Testing Salesforce Flows
Flows have been around for quite some time in the Salesforce ecosystem, and are surely one of the best automation tools. During the last release, Summer ‘22, Salesforce launched a bunch of improvements regarding Flows and Flow Builder, making a clear statement - flows came...