When developing an application to run on top of the Pulsar Platform, developers have the freedom to use the wealth of web technology available in the mobile app environment. Pulsar has been successfully used with several popular web frameworks, allowing developers to use some of the same code and techniques they have used in more traditional web development. However, there are a few technologies and methodologies that can be used to improve the developer experience while building a Pulsar-based app.
General Recommendations
- Use Promises for continuations
- Keep things modular -- build one library of API calls in the resources
- Use global resources map
- In code, use 18 character Ids
- Date format should be a valid Salesforce date format
Testing/Test Data
We encourage the use of a Salesforce Sandbox to test your code in the Pulsar environment.
Debugging your HTML/Javascript
Due to restrictions We recommend
One of the first obstacles most developers run into is the lack of a built-in way to debug difficulty of debugging their code in-place while it is running within the Pulsar app.
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Coming in Spring 2020 Pulsar release for Android and Windows, you will be able to use a local development server running on your development machine to rapidly iterate on your code.
Mobile Safari Tips
- In order to have smooth scrolling on iOS Safari, any time you would use CSS
overflow: scroll; --
Make sure to include:-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;This will ensure that your scrolling performance is smooth.
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