As I mentioned on previous entries, Salesforce has its good and bad things, but coming from a Java School, I still firmly believe that is not very Developer Friendly.
One of the things I wanted to try was to implement a Rich UI using JavaScript frameworks and either simple backend or APIs. However, Salesforce makes it kind of complicated.
The main challenge is around managing static resources, since all your code will be mostly in a bunch of JS files which have to be packaged and deployed in a Zip file as static resource.
But if you are patient enough you could implement something cool with a Visualforce page that might look like this:
On this particular approach we mixed Apex Remote Objects (Remote Object Model) with React. But that doesn't mean that you can't be creative and go for something more complex like using @RemoteAction in your controller methods.
Yeah, we could have tried something more Salesforcy like Lightning, but that's not what the cool kids use nowadays :D
One of the things I wanted to try was to implement a Rich UI using JavaScript frameworks and either simple backend or APIs. However, Salesforce makes it kind of complicated.
The main challenge is around managing static resources, since all your code will be mostly in a bunch of JS files which have to be packaged and deployed in a Zip file as static resource.
But if you are patient enough you could implement something cool with a Visualforce page that might look like this:
On this particular approach we mixed Apex Remote Objects (Remote Object Model) with React. But that doesn't mean that you can't be creative and go for something more complex like using @RemoteAction in your controller methods.
Yeah, we could have tried something more Salesforcy like Lightning, but that's not what the cool kids use nowadays :D
