What is Visual Studio Code and how does it fit into this picture?

Electron Engine underpinning Atom & Visual Studio Code.

Heroku + Heroku Connect for NodeJS / MEAN Salesforce apps.

Control Salesforce from any environment: Command Line, Server, Browser.

JsForce, nForce, ngForce, Heroku Force, etc….

There are JavaScript tools and libraries available to accomplish virtually anything you wish to do as a Salesforce developer. It seems like there’s a new library or tool every week, and it doesn’t stop with Salesforce. If you follow JavaScript, you know how rapid the pace of change is. Development is powerful and using both native and open-source tools JavaScript is a first-class Salesforce language.

And today I’m going to show you how you can use JavaScript to develop beautiful and responsive web applications simpler and faster than you ever have before. I’m not sure if you can tell yet, but I love JavaScript! And I’m really excited to be speaking with you today because, in my humble opinion, Salesforce is the best platform for JavaScript development and developers.

Yet the language can be so simple and expressive, one can setup up a web server with 10 short lines of code that read like English. JavaScript runs enterprise, “web-scale” servers for the largest corporations in the world, from the database to the pixels. There are now tools and packages available to do seemingly anything. JavaScript, a language conceived of and brought to life in less than two weeks, has developed over the last 20 years, into the language du jour for the modern developer. Modern development happens with Javascriptįunctional programming, with its roots in the 50’s, is more popular than ever.

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