The Force.com IDE includes new features to help you develop and deploy your Lightning Applications. In this session, the Platform Developer Tools team will give you a preview at these new features through a live demo of building an app. Let us know what other features you would like to see to accelerate your Lightning Development eXperience!
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3. • Modern framework for building single-page applications on both mobile and
desktop.
• Allows great extensibility and reuse through component-oriented
programming—use components from fellow developers!
What makes
great?
4. • Built on open-source technologies and industry standards.
• Plays nicely with existing open-source libraries.
• Plays nicely with existing tooling support in IDEs.
What makes
great?
6. Many powerful new features to help you develop with Lightning
• Multi-page editor neatly handles all files in your Lightning bundle
• Documentation browser
• Outline view and Open dialog help you quickly navigate between files
• Integration with existing tools
• Smart completion for your components
• Many, many more features
Force.com IDE
20. When will this be available?
August 2016 in version 37.0 of the Force.com IDE
21. • Open source!
• Bundle-aware file wizards
• Code navigation between components (where is this
used, who handles this event, etc)
• SLDS browse, assist, and lint
• Quick Fix support
What’s Next?
22. Acknowledgements
• Nicolas Kruk
• Min Idzelis
• Gunnar Wagenknecht
• Winston Chow
• Jonathan Widjaja
• Ross Baker
• Face detection uses Tracking.js library
• Lightning support builds upon WST, JSDT, and Tern from Eclipse
24. Let us know what you think!
Nick Chen
Lead Software Engineer
@vazexqi
Greg Wester
Senior Product Manager
@gwestr
Editor's Notes
Good morning and welcome to second day of the first ever TrailHeaDX developer conference! And, of course, a warm welcome for joining me this morning on my session on the Lightning Developer Experience in the Force.com IDE. And, for those of you joining us (or watching) remotely, good day to you. My name is Nick Chen and I’m a lead software engineer for our Platform Developer Tools team. This is the team that brought you the Dev Console, Force.com IDE and the Apex Debugger. Speaking of the Apex Debugger
Today, I am very excited to share with you the new features that we have added in the Force.com IDE to empower you to work with Lightning. We have been using these same powerful tools as we develop internally using Lightning as well. Our developers really like it and we think you will like it too.
Today, we are going to be showing many new and exciting features that will be available soon. As always, customers who purchase our services should make the purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available
At its core, Lightning is all about open source technologies and industry standards. The underlying framework that powers Lightning is called Aura and it is open source as well.
In 2014, when Lightning was first available, we introduced support for Lightning in the Developer Console. For those who are not familiar with it, the Developer Console is our web-based IDE. It is very easy to use for both novice and advanced users. And there is nothing to install. Pop into your browser and you can start coding immediately.
As the years went by, more and more of our tooling partners started introducing tools for Lightning. Some of them are web-based. Some of them are desktop-based. But together, they create a rich ecosystem of tools.
Now, in 2016, the Force.com IDE, joins the ranks of those tools. Offering you another tool that could fit your development style.
With the abundance of these tools, you don’t have to worry about finding one that fits your development style.
The Force.com IDE is built on the powerful Eclipse platform. It is a set of plug-ins that allow you to work with Apex, Visualforce and various other metadata types. And, today, it now supports Lightning as well.
Let me give you a preview of the features and then I will give a hands-on demonstration of my favorite ones.
When you go to an awesome conference such as TrailHeaDX, you get to meet many new developers. Not only do you get to meet them, but you also get to take selfies with them. Now what can you do with these selfies? You can store them, you can upload them, etc. Won’t it be great if you could also just detect the faces in them and create new contacts? Well, for today’s demo app, I’m going to show you how you can leverage the powerful new features in the Force.com IDE to develop such an app.
Let’s analyze this app. Underneath this it uses the Tracking.js library. This is a computer vision library written in pure JavaScript. Everything is done on the client side.
This is what I mean by the power of using industry standards and open source technologies. You no longer need to wait for someone to write an API for you. You can take any existing