How to become a Coding expert in Salesforce

Let's see how to become a coding expert in Salesforce. If you are new to Salesforce then check out our FREE Salesforce Training. Here are a few tips to become an expert coder in Salesforce.

1. Learn Apex Design Patterns

There are different design patterns available but below 4 Apex Design patterns, every developer should learn in Salesforce.

1. Object Oriented Programming
2. Singleton: There can only be one
3. Strategy: Make a gametime call
4. Builder: Construct complex objects
5. Command: Execute an action by name [ TBD ]

Design patterns are complex. but help you to become an expert developer in Salesforce. Learn more here.

2. Apex CPU Time Limit

Being an expert coder you should focus on performance. Learn about how to resolve System.LimitException: Apex CPU time limit exceeded error in Salesforce. Here are some tips.

1. Avoid Multiple automation on a Single Object
2. Trigger Framework
3. Avoid multiple Validation Rules
4. Using Map based query
5. Use Async Apex
6. Aggregate SOQL usage
7. Avoid Nested For loop
8. Avoid using process builder
9. Salesforce Solution Design – Performance considerations
10. Use Return Early Pattern

Learn more about Apex CPU Time Limit Exceeded.

3. Too many SOQL Queries 101

Learn about how to Resolve the “Too many SOQL queries: 101” error.

1. Avoid SOQL queries inside For Loop
2. Bulkify Apex Trigger and Recursion Handling
3. Move some business logic into @future
4. Minimize the No.of SOQLs by merging the queries

Learn more about Too Many SOQL Queries here.

4. Monitoring & Auditing Tools in Salesforce

There are different Monitoring & Auditing Tools are available in Salesforce. Here are some of them

1. Salesforce Health Checker
2. Portal Health Check
3. Salesforce Optimizer
4. Salesforce Accelerator
5. Manual Org Assessment
6. Security Center
7. Login History
8. View Setup Audit Trail
9. System Overview
10. Field History Tracking
11. Lightning Usage App
12. Apex Exception Emails
13. Debug Logs
14. Event Monitoring
15. Transaction Security Policy
16. API Usage Notification
17. Force.com Code Scanner
18. Apex PMD
19. Custom Error Handling framework

Learn about all Monitoring & Auditing Tools in Salesforce to make your code and salesforce org secure.

5. Security in Apex

When you use Apex, the security of your code is critical. How to enforce data security and how to prevent SOQL injection attacks in Apex. We’ll also review what Locker Service does for you and security?best practices?for?LWC.

Check our post Security in Salesforce learn about

1. User Mode vs System Mode
2. Object and Field-level Security (CRUD & FLS)
3. Record-level Security (Sharing)
4. Sharing Clauses for Apex Classes
5. Data Security in LWC

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