Part 1 of my Building an eCars App on Salesforce with Heroku Microservices series; based on attending the video series by Mohith Shrivastava and Julián Duque.
Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. As someone who became a Salesforce developer by accident 10 years ago and parlayed that into a career and business, I’m fully aware of the dividends that investing in continuous learning and brushing up on the latest in my industry can yield. Even after years of working in the Salesforce ecosystem, earning 11 certifications, and going through several hundred different projects, I’ve found it’s difficult to make the time to keep up with all the new tools and features of modern development (and usually I have the TrailheaDX and Dreamforce conferences each year to get caught up!). Due to the COVID-19 travel restrictions, in-person conferences are canceled. However, a new video series piqued my interest. In particular, two Salesforce Developer Advocates, Mohith Shrivastava and Julián Duque, are doing a series on Modern App Development on Heroku/Salesforce. So in an effort to get caught up on the latest in modern app development and cement the information as a personal goal, I’ll be attending the series. I thought I would capture all the technical details in a series of articles both to help me learn the tech and so that others could learn some of the latest trends in Javascript, Postgres, messaging, microservices, PWA, and more, and how these technologies can be integrated into a cloud platform. Hopefully, those of you who are web developers looking to expand your skills horizontally into the Salesforce platform, administrators transitioning to development, or experienced Salesforce developer like myself who needs an update on the latest trends in modern app development, will find some gems in this series that will help you along in your career and personal development. If anything, this will be a pretty cool hands-on experience. I’ll walk you through building an eCars app that is a sales and service application for a fictitious electric car company (Pulsar). It will allow users to customize and buy cars, service techs to view live diagnostic info from the car, and more. Best of all, we’ll build it using a variety of modern technologies, including: Salesforce Heroku Postgres MQTT for pub/sub messaging Microservices Progressive Web Apps (PWA) node.js Lightning Web Components (LWC) If you want to learn more about Mohith and Julián (the creators of this app), I’ve already done the hard part of LinkedIn stalking them for you. You’re welcome. After the proverbial and mandatory safe harbor statement, we’re off to the races (you can find the session here).
