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When should you use lightning components instead of Visualforce?
Lightning components can be employed when developing Salesforce mobile applications. For mobile apps with limited and high latency networks, Visualforce with page-centric characteristics would be a poor choice. Lightning was created to deal with such problems.
What is the difference between visualforce and lightning component?
To put this in perspective, with Visualforce you would send an interaction to the Salesforce server and then update the entire page. However, with Lightning, you can send an interaction to the Salesforce servers and then update a specific component.
Can you use Visualforce pages in lightning experience?
Visualforce pages work in Lightning Experience, many without any revisions. Things have moved around, though, and there are some chores you’ll want to complete to make sure your Visualforce pages work the way you expect as your users switch between Lightning Experience and Salesforce Classic.
Are there features that don’t work in lightning experience?
List at least two Visualforce features that don’t work in Lightning Experience. Describe how the Lightning Experience affects the visual design of existing Visualforce pages. Lightning Experience is a whole new world, and we hope you think it’s exciting.
Can You suppress lightning experience in Salesforce classic?
On a bit smaller scale, the showHeader and sidebar attributes of have no effect on Visualforce pages when displayed in Lightning Experience. The standard Salesforce Classic header and sidebar are always suppressed, and there isn’t a way to suppress the Lightning Experience header and sidebar.
What can you do with Visualforce in Salesforce?
Extend your page layouts by embedding Visualforce pages on them to display completely custom content on a standard page. The behavior here is identical to Salesforce Classic, except you need to view the record’s Details to see the page layout.