Agentforce League : Session 01 (APEX & LWC) – 13th Dec 2025

To ground Apex and LWC concepts in a real-world scenario, the session used Consumer Goods Cloud as the primary industry use case. A brief introduction covered how Consumer Goods Cloud helps organizations manage:

• Retail store hierarchies and in-store locations
• Visit planning and retail execution
• Promotions and product placement strategies

The focus was intentionally kept on the Retail Execution module rather than the more complex Trade Promotion Management (TPM), ensuring participants could concentrate on learning Apex and LWC while still understanding an industry-relevant data model.

The hands-on use case revolved around building a promotion creation wizard that allows users to:

• Create promotions at an account level
• Select products and apply discounts
• Choose applicable retail stores

This served as the foundation to demonstrate several powerful new platform features.

New Features Highlighted

State Management for LWC (Beta)

One of the most anticipated features showcased was State Management for Lightning Web Components, currently in Beta. This feature introduces a Redux-like pattern for managing shared state across components.

Key highlights include:

• Centralized state management using @lwc/state
• No more prop drilling between parent, child, and grandchild components
• Reactive state updates across all subscribed components

A simple and effective demo was shown:

• A Parent Counter Component displaying a number
• A Child Component automatically showing double the parent’s value

With atoms, computed values, and setters, developers can now cleanly separate data logic from UI logic, making complex UIs like multi-step wizards far easier to build and maintain.

For detailed implementation and examples, refer to the Shared State Manager Example

Apex Cursors – GA in Spring ’26

Another major highlight was Apex Cursors, going GA in Spring ’26. This feature introduces a powerful way to handle large data sets efficiently.

Key capabilities include:

• Use of Database.Cursor locator
• Fetch records using locator.fetch(position, numberOfRecords)
• Dynamically decide batch size at runtime
• Call the locator up to 10 times within a single transaction

Apex Cursors overcome traditional limitations of OFFSET queries and Batch Apex, making them ideal for scenarios like pagination, streaming large datasets, and UI-driven data retrieval.

For detailed implementation and examples, refer to the Apex Cursors Example

Run Relevant Tests (Spring ’26)

Salesforce is also enhancing deployment efficiency with Run Relevant Tests, scheduled for Spring ’26. This capability ensures that only test classes relevant to the deployment are executed, instead of running the entire test suite.

With the introduction of the testFor attribute in @isTest, developers can explicitly associate test classes with specific components or metadata. Additionally, the critical = true attribute ensures that essential test classes always run, regardless of the deployment scope.

Together, these improvements significantly reduce deployment time while maintaining high test reliability and confidence in production releases.