Salesforce: Some Insights

I was recently chatting with a childhood friend (rare thanks to COVID19, life is not so fast, for now) . He's a researcher and a Six Sigma expert. He mentioned he was facing a problem wherein he needs to extract google play app reviews. Now, being the programmer at heart (for good and bad), I thought it would be easy to crack. I stumbled upon various techniques and found a better/ faster way to get it done. Hereby sharing my journey. Challenge(s) Retrieve user reviews for google play app store for given app App is related to COVID-19 for India so have almost thousands of reviews being posted every single day. So, in short, large data volume Google play page doesn't make it easy either. Due to nature of minified javascript and dynamic event injection, user experience, it's a much complicated environment for data extraction Paging incorporates both infinity scrolling and button based next page functionality Solutions thought/ tried RPA - (I'm not an RPA expert, not yet) ...

With more and more complex components being built into lightning, it becomes quite important to understand how we can improve our codebase and ensure that we use best practices. When it comes to building lightning components, they are expected to be pretty much self-contained. It works well when creating standalone components serving specific business function. But, often in enterprise arena we build components having some of common functionality. For e.g. need to validate email or address or a specific business rule validation. A direct approach is to copy and paste the method within helper files of lightning component. But, it is definitely not an advisable approach. So, we have a problem to solve. Lightning provides capability to load external javascript files (static resources) and use it's code. In this article i'll give a quick and simple glimpse of this capability Step 1 - Create a javascript helper file Create a javascript file to contain required shared code...

While working with Visualforce pages along with javascript remoting functionalities, we often create a lot of callback methods. On top of it, multiple invocations in a chained approach is more chaotic, often hardcoded and leaves code quite unreadable.   Following is an example code while using Javascript remoting within Visualforce page:-   function invoke_remoteService1 (){ console .log ( ' Invoking remote service 1' ); Visualforce.remoting.Manager.invokeAction( '{!$RemoteAction.testWebServiceController.remoteService1}' , remoteService1_ResponseHandler); } function remoteService1_ResponseHandler (response, event){ console .log ( ' Response from remote service 1 = ' + response); if (response ! = null ){ console .log ( ' Invoking remote service 2' ); Visualforce.remoting.Manager.invokeAction( '{!$RemoteAction.testWebServiceController.remoteService2}...