Discover the latest Salesforce Winter ’25 release highlights tailored for developers. This update brings a suite of new features designed to enhance the development experience, streamline processes, and unlock new capabilities. Here’s a breakdown of the top five key areas you need to know:
1. Development Efficiency
– Code Builder, a web-based development environment, is now GA, offering a powerful setup that’s instantly available with no installation.
– The DevOps Center now supports Sandboxes, streamlining CI/CD processes directly within Salesforce.
– Salesforce Functions makes it easier to build scalable, event-driven apps with Functions Recipes for sample code and use cases.
2. Enhanced Apex Capabilities
– Apex now has a new Safe Navigation Operator to simplify null checks and prevent null pointer exceptions.
– Testing Apex is more robust with parallel test execution, reducing the time taken to run test suites.
3. Lightning Web Components (LWC)
– LWC is constantly evolving, and now with the @salesforce/resourceUrl module, accessing static resources becomes significantly easier.
– The Lightning Web Security model is enhanced, further securing LWC by isolating them from the global browser object.
4. Platform Events and Change Data Capture
– High volume platform events now support Change Data Capture, allowing you to capture data changes and publish events at scale.
– You can now pause and resume event consumption, giving more control over event-driven architecture.
5. New Tools and Extensions
– The Salesforce CLI Unification is set to streamline command-line tasks, bringing sfdx and sf commands together.
– Visual Studio Code Extensions for Salesforce includes new refactoring tools to efficiently manage org metadata and code.
Stay ahead by exploring these updates and consider how they can be integrated to optimize your development strategy within Salesforce.
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