Useful resources for creating apps with Salesforce
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What is Awesome Salesforce ?
Awesome is awesome project started by Sindre Sorhus who is most
popular person on Github.
He created a project to list down coolest of links bookmarked in your
machines and organized them together by compiling them at one place.
Later, this projects caught fire and developers community around the
world started writing awesome pages (dedicated to their favorite
technology).
What makes for an awesome
list?
Read the
awesome manifesto and ensure your list complies.
The Fiery Meter of AWSome
- Repo with 0100+ Stars: :fire:
- Repo with 0200+ Stars: :fire::fire:
- Repo with 0500+ Stars: :fire::fire::fire:
- Repo with 1000+ Stars: :fire::fire::fire::fire:
- Repo with 2000+ Stars: :fire::fire::fire::fire::fire:
Repos not on The Fiery Meter of AWSome can still be
awesome
A Note on Repo AWSomeness
Each repo listed meets at least one of the following
requirements:
- Community-authored repo with 100+ stars
- Community-vouched repo with < 100 stars
100+ stars for community repos is not a strict requirement, it only
serves as a guideline for the initial compilation. If you can vouch for
the awesomeness of a repo with < 100 stars and you can explain why it
should be listed, please submit a pull request.
Pull requests might be left open for a period of time to let the
community chime in and vouch for it. An official repo from aws or awslabs can be removed if the
community wishes. Check out the awesome
manifesto.
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IDE
The previously popular Mavensmate editor(http://mavensmate.com/) has
now ceased developement.
- Force.com
IDE - Based on Eclipse Platform, supported and packaged by
Salesforce.com(NOW RETIRED)
- ASIDE.IO - Online Editor, fast
and connects to any Salesforce org quickly.
- WelkinSuite for Windows -
Desktop Editor for force.com application, free for use, pay for
support.
- C9.IO - Online Editor,
connects to any Salesforce org quickly.
- Illuminated Cloud - A
powerful Force.com development tool hosted within JetBrains IntelliJ
IDEA.
Plugins for Salesforce
- Eclipse
Plugin - Based on Eclipse Platform, supported and packaged by
Salesforce.com
- Atom
Plugin- MavensMate plugin for building
Salesforce.com/Force.com/Salesforce1 applications inside GitHub’s Atom
text editor
- Visual Studio Code
- Salesforce
Extensions for VS Code are the official Salesforce VS Code
extensions.
- ForceCode is a
Visual Studio Code extension for Salesforce development
- Auto-complete
+ Provides auto-completions for Apex & Visualforce, Go-To &
Peek Definition and Realtime Syntax Checking
- xysfdx is a Visual
Studio Code extension for Salesforce SFDX Development.
- Salesforce
Snippets is a VS Code Extension which provides useful Salesforce
snippets to speed up writing code for Salesforce platform
- ApexMate- Apex
Plugin for TextMate.
- VimAwesome-
VIM Plugin for Force.com.
- Force.com CLI-
Command-line interface to Force.com.
- HaoIDE - Sublime
Plugin for Force.com
- JedIDE -
Force.com integration for IntelliJ IDEA
- Mavensmate
Mavensmate extension for VS code. The main Mavensmate project is now no
longer active, so this plugin may be of limited use.
Salesforce Custom Search
Engines
- findsf: Google Custom Search of
Salesforce related sites
- Search The Force.com: Google
custom search of Salesforce related sites with OpenSearch support
Browser extensions for
Salesforce
Read cruciated list of Awesome-list-of-browser-extensions-of-salesforce
Packages and
Libraries supporting salesforce
Apex
mocks - ApexMocks is a mocking framework for the Force.com Apex
language.It derives it’s inspiration from the well known Java mocking
framework Mockito
Apex
Commons - Common Apex Library supporting Apex Enterprise Patterns
and much more! Must deploy ApexMocks
before deploying this library.Also see MavensMate
Templates
Apex
Commons Sample Code - Samples application illustrating the Apex
Enterprise Patterns library Must deploy Apex
Common before deploying this library
Apex
Metadata API - Apex Wrapper for the Salesforce Metadata API
Apex
Core HttpCallout - Apex HTTP Callout Framework.
This library has been extended by five libraries
Key Features of this library
- Framework for HTTP callouts.
- JSON serialization and deserialization base classes.
- OAuth Client - extends the base AbstractClient to provide the
callouts required for OAuth authentication.
Polyforce -
PolyForce is the project started as an idea with a motive create polymer
applications/components that derive data from Salesforce, The idea
create a robust set of polymer components that can mutually be shared
with each other and on the other hand provide a working sample for
developers to learn and get inspired to built more components
Salesforce to
Github - Github API client in Apex for Force.com
Apex UML
Digram Maker - Create UML diagrams from Apex code using the Tooling
API
SfApexDoc
- A full-featured Apex documentation generator, similar to
JavaDoc.
Visualforce
TableGrid - TableGrid is a free, open-source Force.com library, that
provides users and developers a highly customizable, native-looking,
sortable, filterable, editable Grid Visualforce component. This
component can be used as an advanced, highly configurable (by developer
and user) replacement of apex:pageBlockTables and Standard Related Lists
Force.com
ESAPI - Enterprise Security API for the Apex language on the
Force.com platform. This library consists of three modules - Validation,
Output Encoding and Access Control(CRUD, FLS and Sharing).
R.apex -
Functional library for Apex. This library, inspired by Ramda.js, offers
a bunch of utility functions to manipulate Apex collections, as well as
extensive support for functional programming.
Force DI -
Generic dependency
injection (DI) library with support for injecting Apex, Visualforce,
Lightning, and Flows at runtime.
Query.apex -
SOQL query builder on Salesforce.com platform, which supports complex
conditions, field and namespace management, child relationships query,
and functional programming style coding.
Apex
Chainable Batch - Apex Batches can be chained by calling the
successor batch from the finish() method of the previous
batch. But such hardcoding makes this model inflexible. It’s hard to
build the chain from outside, neighter from a central class nor on
runtime dependant on business logic.
Apex Test
Kit - Apex Test Kit can help generate massive sObject data for Apex
test classes. It is can help establish arbitrary levels of many-to-one,
one-to-many relationships, and also generate field values based on
simple rules automatically.
Developer Utilities
Weave -
Sublime Text Plugin to generate boilerplate Salesforce Code
Templates
GitHub Salesforce
Deploy Tool - Automagically deploy a GitHub repository to a
Salesforce ORG and “Deploy to Salesforce button” to your README.md
files
Cinnamon-Cinnamon is
a Force.com app that enables you to build and run Selenium tests to
validate custom UI pages with Visualforce/Javascript in your Salesforce
org.
Push
Notification Plugin for iOS and Android- Cordova Push Notifications
Plugin for Android, iOS, WP8 and Amazon Fire OS
Salesforce1-Dev-Guide-Setup-Package-Salesforce1-Dev-Guide-Setup-Package
Analytics-Cloud-Dataset-Utils-
Utility to load external data into Analytics Cloud datasets, and
transform existing datasets.
Workbench-
Workbench is a powerful, web-based suite of tools designed for
administrators and developers to interact with Salesforce.com
organizations via the Force.com APIs.
Playground-
Adminbooster Playground is an online tool to run SOQL/SOSL queries or
Apex code, providing high level features for analysis and admin
productivity.
CassaCloud- Nice
salesforce debug helps you to understand logs from Salesforce developer
console. For example if you have Map of map with lists, it is hard to
find value where it exactly is.
SoqlXplorer-
SoqlXplorer is an awesome tool for developers using the Salesforce.com
platform.
force-dev-tool -
Command line tool supporting the Force.com development
lifecycle.
JSON to
Apex- Generate an Apex class from a JSON string.
Salesforce IDs
converter- Convert IDs on 15 characters to IDs on 18
characters.
Sweet.apex -
Sweet.apex is the next generation of Apex development, transpiling Sweet
Apex(a feature-rich Apex-like code) to Apex classes.
soql-parser-js -
JavaScript library for parsing SOQL queries, composing SOQL queries, and
formatting SOQL queries.
Adminite - A query editor
desktop app with built-in auto completions, inline data editing, and
more.
Git Ignore for Salesforce
Open Source
Projects Repositories from Salesforce
- Salesforce Git Repo -
Grab all latest salesforce open source projects here, you will find
awesome projects, framework, libraries that salesforce and opened for
the world
- Salesforce Labs -
Checkout open source and experimental projects from Salesforce Team. Get
an early access to features that can qualify in feature and contribute
your ideas
- Salesforce
Mobile UI - Polymer Elements for Salesforce - Mobile UI Elements is
a free, open-source Force.com (unsupported) library to simplify the
development of mobile apps. The library, based on the Google’s Polymer
framework, provides the fundamental building blocks for creating HTML5
apps that run well on smartphones and tablets
- ForceServer
- It supportes a proxy and web server, ForceServer is a simple
development server aimed at providing a simple and integrated developer
experience when building applications that use Salesforce OAuth and REST
services.
Javascript Libraries for
Salesforce
- JSForce - JSforce (f.k.a.
Node-Salesforce) - it capsulates the access to various APIs provided
by Salesforce in asynchronous JavaScript function calls.Unlike other
Salesforce API libraries, it is intended to give integrated interface
both server-side and client-side apps, so you don’t have to rewrite
similar logics with different libraries only for running in different
environment.Additionally, it has useful command line interface (CLI)
which gives interactive console (REPL), so you can learn the usage
without hassle.
- ForceSniffer -
Device Detection Library for Salesforce - Simplified Library that
detect Mobile Devices, Salesforce1 App and other Saleforce Context.
- ForceJS
- With ES6 support now, this micro library designed to use the
Salesforce REST APIs in JavaScript Apps
- nForce - nforce
is a node.js salesforce REST API wrapper for force.com, database.com,
and salesforce.com
- ngForce -A
set of Angular.js modules that facilitate quick and sustainable
Angular.js application development on the Force.com Platform.
- ForceTK-
ForceTK - a minimal Force.com REST API for JavaScript apps
- ForceEng -
Micro-Library to use Salesforce REST API in AngularJS apps
- Formulon - Formula
parser completely implemented in ES6. See
Demo
- Scripting
Toolkit - Windows based toolkit to run native Javascript to access
Salesforce data.
UX Libraries for Salesforce
- Data
Loader - Is an easy to use graphical tool that helps you to get your
data into Salesforce objects.
- SFXOrgData - Copy data from
your Production or Full Sandbox environment to Developer/Dev Pro
sandboxes.
- DreamFactory
Monarch - Migrate related sets of data between Orgs.
- Jitterbit - Commercial
software integration product that facilitates transport between legacy,
enterprise, and on-demand computing applications.
- Pentaho
Kettle - The most popular open-source graphical ETL tool.
- Talend -
An open source application for data integration job design with a
graphical development environment.
- Some other solutions from awesome-etl list.
Salesforce Lightning
Salesforce Browser
Extensions
Mobile Development with
Salesforce
Mobile SDK
Salesfoce
MobileSDK for iOS-If you’d like to work with the source code of the
SDK itself, you’ve come to the right place! You can browse sample app
source code and debug down through the layers to get a feel for how
everything works under the covers.
Salesfoce
MobileSDK for Windows-Build the project normally in Visual Studio;
everything should build fine. If you wish to create a new project and
not use the NuGet versions of the core libraries, simply create a new
project with the template, remove the NuGet reference and add references
to Salesforce.SDK.Core, Salesforce.SDK.Store (for windows projects) or
Salesforce.SDK.Phone for phone projects.
Salesfoce
MobileSDK for Andriod- Source repository for the Salesforce Mobile
SDK for Android.
Salesforce
Mobile Packs with Javascript Libraries 
Google Polymer Pack : Try Designer | Github Repo
| Watch
Designer Video | 
Build your Mobile App with a set of new HTML tags that ease the
development of salesforce driven user interfaces. It’s based on the
Google’s Polymer framework and uses Web Components to provide
fundamental building blocks for creating an Offline enabled application
with Salesforce Mobile SDK
AngularJS Pack : Get
Started | Github
Repo | 
Design and build apps that separate UI, logic, and data using Mobile
Pack for AngularJS. Google’s AngularJS lets you reap the benefits of a
Model-View-Control architecture in your JavaScript code and utilize
advanced features like reusable components and dependency injection.
Troubleshooting and queries
- Force.com
Discussion boards : Rich variety of boards are available to discuss
almost anything about platform. Locate the correct board [here].
- Tweet: Force.com
community is pretty active on Twitter, tweet your question with hash
#askforce
- StackOverFlow:
Post your questions with right tags like apex, visualforce and
salesforce to get a quick response.
- StackExchange:
Salesforce Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for Salesforce
administrators, implementation experts, developers and anybody
in-between. It’s 100% free, no registration required.
- salesforce-developer.ru:
Russian-speaking Salesforce community: there are developer’s and admin’s
forum and blog.
- Trailhead -
Trailhead teaches you how to build cloud apps for free with fun,
interactive tutorials. Stand out by learning in-demand Salesforce
development skills.
- Udacity
Course - This class teaches you how to build powerful web and mobile
apps and host them in the cloud, without writing a line of code.
- Pluralsight
Course - A crash course on how to code Apex taught by four time
Salesforce MVP David Liu.
- Focus on Force - This
inexpensive learning resource provides platform courses, study guides,
and practice exams for several certification paths including Admin,
Advanced Admin, App Builder, Platform Developer I, Platform Developer
II, among others.
Salesforce Certification
Program
* Introducing three new Salesforce certifications:Salesforce
Platform App Builder, Salesforce
Platform Developer I, and Salesforce
Platform Developer II.
- Online Salesforce Certification Credentials Verification Click
Here
- Ready to register for an exam? Click
here.
Salesforce University
Technical Blogs
- Salesforce
Developer Relations Blog - Managed by Salesforce Developer Relations
Team, you will find coolest of updates in the world of Salesforce,
mostly experienments, features and developer evagelist blog official
from this podium.
- Salesforce
Engineering Blog - Covers latest update from engineering team, you
will find updates about core engineering and product releated post and
some awesome people to follow
- Andrew Fawcett - CTO at
Financialforce.com, Author and known for his outstanding contribution to
Salesforce Community. Read
More
- Andrez Perez -
(ElToro.IT) - Articles about Lightning Components, Apex,
Visualforce, Force.com and Salesforce in general. He is a Master
Technical Instructor at Salesforce.com and owns 11x Salesforce
certifications.
- Christophe Coenraets -
Christophe Coenraets is a Developer Evangelist for Salesforce.com where
he focuses on mobile application development, Read More
- Harshit Pandey -(Oyecode) -
Harshit Pandey is Principal Technical Architect at Intuitive Surgical,
previously Technical Architect at Salesforce.com Developer Relations
Team and build Trailhead while at
Salesforce, love to expriement with ever evoloving capacities of
Salesforce Read More
- Jeff Doughlas - Senior
Technical Consultant at Appirio & Developer Evangelist Architect at
topcoder specializing in cloud-based, APIs & mobile apps. Read More
- Keir Bowden- Also
known as Keir Bowden and Keir is Chief Technical Officer at BrightGen, a
Salesforce Platinum Partner, in the United Kingdom.Read
More
- Enrico Murru -(Nerd @ Work) -
Also known as Enreeco or ForceLogic.Ultra geek tech lover mercenary
software developer and Salesforce enthusiast. Read More
- Peter Knolle - Peter Knolle
enjoys working with all kinds of different technologies. Certified
Salesforce.com professional, and Force.com MVP. Read More
- Abhinav Gupta -(TechGerm)-
Force.com MVP & Architect - Passionate about S1 & Javascript,
Architect by Profession and now owner of his company focusing on
salesforce Consulting Read More
- Jitendra Zaa- 7
Salesforce Certificates, MVP and Technical Architect working on platform
since 2008 Read More
- Mohith Shrivastava
-(CloudyWorld)- Mohit is CodeScience at Codescience.com. He is known
for his valuable contribution in stackexchange
owns 9x Salesforce certification.
- The Wizard News - The
Wizard News is a central location for blogs, video, and podcasts created
by Brian Kwong – aka Salesforce Wizard.
- WIPDeveloper.com -
WIPDevloper.com is where content created by Brett Nelson exploring areas
of development in the Salesforce ecosystem is hosted.
Podcasts
- Good day, Sir!
Podcast - A WEEKLY TECHNOLOGY AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PODCAST, WITH
A STRONG FOCUS ON THE SALESFORCE PLATFORM.
- SalesforceWay
Podcast - A WEEKLY SALESFORCE DEVELOPER TARGETED PODCAST.
- Salesforce Posse - The
Salesforce Posse podcast was created to tell the world about Salesforce
development and architecture best practice and news from the Salesforce
eco-system.
- Code Coverage - Code
Coverage is a podcast for developers on the force.com platform, in each
episode we talk to a developer about how they got involved with the
platform, what they’re working on, technologies they like and what they
consider to be their most ‘creative’ solution.
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