Heroku and Salesforce — From Idea to App

Salesforce Modern App Development — Part 1

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 Covid19 travel restrictions, in-person conferences are cancelled. 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…