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  Hello Trailblazers, In this blog I have explained use of EMP API which is used to subscribe for events. You can create Lightning Component which uses this EMP API for subscribing to various streaming channels such as Platform Events, Change Data Capture Events, Generic Events. We can use this implementation for testing Platform Events or Change Data Capture events in local environment. Lightning/empApi module has below methods which are used for implementing events subscription.  Method Name    Parameter Name  Description  subscribe    Subscribes to the streaming channel, this gives subscription object which we use to unsubscribe later.    onMessageCallback  Callback function which is invoked whenever an event is received    repla...

Hello Trailblazers, In this article we will discuss about the platform events. This covers basic idea of Platform Events, how platform events work, how to use Platform Events and some considerations for using Platform Events. Salesforce Platform Events follow Event Driven Architecture. So what is event driven architecture? In simple words, whenever any kind of action happens you notify someone with some message, and we call that action as an Event , message that it carries is known as Event Message , someone who is going to receive that message is known as Event Consumer , environment where action has happened is Event Producer and common channel through which Producer sends an event and receiver reads message is known as Event Bus . This is completely different from request-response structure, your system/application just have to subscribe to event channel and they will be notified in real-time whenever event occurs. Receivers are always in listening mode and more than one receive...