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Salesforce Lightning Web Component Cookbook
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Salesforce Lightning Web Component Cookbook

by Evelyn Maguire
March 2026
Intermediate to advanced
512 pages
11h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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Part 2

Intermediate JavaScript Topics in LWC Development

Now that you have mastered the basics of Lightning Web Component development, you are ready to begin tackling harder problems in JavaScript. You will learn how to translate between legacy and modern JavaScript patterns and when to use each, as well as how Salesforce distorts our JavaScript within the Shadow Document Object Model (Shadow DOM) for security. We will also go in-depth on the dos and don'ts of JavaScript eventing. In mastering these topics, you will be preparing yourself to build fully custom components.

This part has the following chapters:

  • Chapter 4, Synchronous and Asynchronous Processing in Components
  • Chapter 5, Accessing External Data Sources via Lightning Web Component ...
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ISBN: 9781835469866