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What do you need to know about Lightning components?
What Are Lightning Components? Lightning Components are a user interface (UI) framework that is used to create applications for desktop and mobile technologies. Salesforce Admins deploy these components to construct single-page web applications that provide an end-to-end experience on the platform for a variety of functions.
What kind of framework is the Lightning component framework?
The Lightning Component framework is a UI framework for developing single page applications for mobile and desktop devices. As of Spring ’19 (API version 45.0), you can build Lightning components using two programming models: the Lightning Web Components model, and the original Aura Components model.
How are lightning web components different from JavaScript?
Both Lightning Web Components and Web Components are designed heavily using JavaScript; however, JavaScript has changed significantly since the creation of Lightning Components. Lightning Web Components incorporates the latest innovations in JavaScript, which we will go into more detail in the next section.
What’s the latest version of the Lightning API?
As of Spring ’19 (API version 45.0), you can build Lightning components using two programming models: the Lightning Web Components model, and the original Aura Components model. Lightning web components are custom HTML elements built using HTML and modern JavaScript.
You can build simple Lightning components that are entirely self-contained. However, if you build more complex applications, you probably want to share code, or even client-side data, between components. The tag enables you to load external JavaScript libraries after you upload them as static resources.
Where can I find overlay documentation for lightning?
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What do modals and popovers do in Lightning?
The lightning:overlayLib component provides access to methods you can use in your components to open and close modals and popovers. Modals and popovers are overlays that display messages on the current app window. Modals display a dialog in the foreground of the app, interrupting a user’s workflow and drawing attention to the message.
What is the Component Library in Salesforce Lightning?
The Component Library is the Lightning components developer reference. Rapidly develop apps with our responsive, reusable building blocks.
Lightning Components is a UI framework for developing web apps for mobile and desktop devices. It’s a modern framework for building single-page applications with dynamic, responsive user interfaces for Lightning Platform. In lightning components, a component is a bundle of code.
Can a lightning web component be in an aura component?
You can also create an Aura component that includes Lightning Web Components. However, you can not create a Lightning web component that includes Aura Components. Check out the Salesforce Developer Guide if you want to know how to add a Lightning web component inside an Aura component.
Are there any developer tools for lightning Web Components?
You can only develop Lightning web components using the Salesforce CLI and an IDE (or text editor). The developer console is a convenient tool that’s used daily by many Salesforce developers. You can still use it to access Apex classes, Visualforce pages and Aura bundles; however, it’s not a full-blown IDE.
Can you use lightning Web Components in any Salesforce Org?
You can use Lightning web components in any Salesforce org. In fact, behind the scenes, you’ve been using Lightning web components in Lightning Experience for some time. You can develop and deploy your own Lightning web components to any org that has been upgraded to the Spring ’19 release.