Salesforce Lightning Platform

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A Salesforce Lightning Platform is a component-based framework for building and deploying online applications on the Salesforce platform.



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2023

2023

  • chat.openai.com
    • Q: What are some of the components of Salesforce Lightning Platform?
    • A: The Salesforce Lightning Platform is a collection of tools and services for building and managing applications on the Salesforce platform.

      Some of the key components of the Lightning Platform include:

      1. Lightning App Builder: This is a drag-and-drop tool for building custom user interfaces for Salesforce apps.
      2. Lightning Components: These are pre-built, reusable building blocks that you can use to add functionality to your apps.
      3. Lightning Flow: This is a tool for building automated business processes using a visual, drag-and-drop interface.
      4. Lightning Experience: This is the user interface for Salesforce, which has been redesigned to be more modern and efficient.
      5. Lightning Out: This is a tool for embedding Lightning Components in external websites and applications.
      6. Lightning Platform Mobile: This is a mobile application development platform that enables you to build custom mobile apps for iOS and Android using Salesforce data and functionality.
      7. Salesforce AppExchange: This is an online marketplace where you can find, try, and install pre-built applications and components built on the Lightning Platform.
    • ...
    • The following table compares the Force.com Platform and the Salesforce Lightning Platform, highlighting their respective features and functionalities. It includes a column indicating whether the feature is available in the Force.com or Lightning Platform and another column showing the approximate year each feature was introduced. The table offers a clear understanding of the evolution of Salesforce's platform over time and the differences between the two stages of its development.
Feature/Functionality Force.com Lightning Platform Year Introduced
Apex Yes Yes 2006
Visualforce Yes Yes* 2008
SOQL Yes Yes 2005
SOSL Yes Yes 2005
Workflow Yes Yes 2006
Process Builder Yes Yes 2014
Flow (Classic) Yes No 2011
Custom Objects Yes Yes 2005
Custom Fields Yes Yes 2005
Custom Relationships Yes Yes 2005
Lightning Experience No Yes 2015
Aura Components No Yes 2014
Lightning Web Components (LWC) No Yes 2019
Lightning App Builder No Yes 2015
Lightning Flow (Flow Builder) No Yes 2018

2022

  • https://www.salesforce.com/campaign/lightning/faq/
    • QUOTE: ... With an updated and efficient UI, Lightning Experience enables teams to spend more time providing exceptional customer experiences — and less time juggling technologies and applications.
      • Find, prioritize, and act on important work
      • Make calls, take notes, log tasks, and send emails from a single page
      • Work smarter with a built-in data scientist
      • Deliver personalized service, faster ...

2021

2021

  • https://mohan-chinnappan-n.github.io/books/lx/chap-1/body.html
    • QUOTE: Two types of events in the Lightning Component Framework:
      • Component events are handled by the component itself or a component that instantiates or contains the component (parent component).
      • Application events are handled by all components that are listening to the event. These events are essentially a traditional publish-subscribe model.
    • Sequence Diagram: