Salesforce Aura/ Aura Framework

Salesforce Aura, a UI framework, is one of the greatest things that salesforce has come up with.



Please watch this video:

Things I've noticed are:
  • Its free.
  • You can build mobile apps as well as any transformable apps for both mobile and desktop.
  • Here is the github link for u to get a copy and try:  https://github.com/forcedotcom/aura
  • I can kiss goodbye to the Mobile SDK.
  • It does not require Visualforce/ Apex to work. For that matter it is independent of Salesforce platform. 
  • It is shown in the video the syntax of aura components, <aura:component extensible="true"> <aura:attribute> tags, which means we are going to learn new things and have fun :)
  • The basic knowledge of java/ Apache Maven is good to start with this development. As you know salesforce technologies dont mandate any thing. So, I think, the newbies can also be comfortable with this. 
  • Salesforce1 is built on this and it has excellent capabilities.
  • I dug into the git and found this tutorial: Aura 101 and more here from its home
You can refer to Jesse's blog for more information.

And Looking forward to develop apps with aURa.

Prabhan

Comments

  1. test3 December 2014 at 07:46

    My initial reaction to this framework is WHAT THE HELL? Server side parsing has been around for ages and its starting to fade out. Why create a jetty java layer that needs to parse xml templates?

    The documentation is terrible, by far the worst I've seen for any framework . Sorry but 100 page pdfs do not count. Try finding attributes associated with the components that you want to use or even determine what a component can do before using it -- this is a total chore. Some components are unnecessary.... ui:button, did we really need a wrapper for an ugly button?

    No xsd for code completion? I suppose I could make my own but why bother.

    Templates are wordy. Not looking forward to typing 10 "attribute" tags in a row.

    Maven woes. mvn install fail, mvn clean install fail. maven corrupted, delete repo. mvn install works. mvn jetty:run. mvn pointing to wrong directory - manually reorg your folder. HAVE FUN!

    Windows support? Seems that the force guys all use macs because there have been some pretty major bugs with windows (ie never worked) that just got fixed last week.

    Dated default styles.

    Performance is slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Just check out the force sites that do use aura.


    Aura is the name of the github javascript framework, why use the same name?


    There is no benefit to using this framework over a good javascript library like angular and I can see why noone is using Aura outside of a salesforce environment even though its been out for what now 2 years?


    What am I pissed about? Having to waste brain space learning this dead tech.

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