Building a Simple App

Just as traditional programming books first teach you how to write a simple “Hello World” program before getting into more complicated things, in this chapter, we're going to create a very simple version of the Recruiting app to show you just how easy it is to get started with the Lightning platform. Along the way we'll orient ourselves to the platform's user interface (where we'll be doing most of our work), and we'll learn how to create and configure our first custom object. Although easy and straightforward, the tasks we complete here will be the first step in developing a full-featured Recruiting app. So let's dive right in!