Lightning Components Insights

What is Lightning Components?

Lightning Components are a user interface framework for developing single-page web applications for mobile and desktop devices. They are commonly used to build custom user interfaces within the Salesforce platform.

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What other technologies are related to Lightning Components?

Lightning Components Competitor Technologies

Visualforce

Visualforce is an older Salesforce technology for building user interfaces, serving as an alternative to Lightning Components for creating custom pages and functionalities.

mentioned alongside Lightning Components in 23% (9k) of relevant job posts

Lightning Web Components

Lightning Web Components (LWC) is another Salesforce technology for building user interfaces, serving as an alternative to Aura Lightning Components.

mentioned alongside Lightning Components in 10% (1.7k) of relevant job posts

Visualforce Pages

Visualforce pages are an older Salesforce technology for building user interfaces, serving as an alternative to Lightning Components for creating custom pages and functionalities.

mentioned alongside Lightning Components in 31% (473) of relevant job posts

LWC

LWC (Lightning Web Components) is another Salesforce technology for building user interfaces, serving as an alternative to Aura Lightning Components.

mentioned alongside Lightning Components in 8% (1.4k) of relevant job posts

Aura

Aura is the original Lightning Component framework, which LWC is designed to replace or coexist with. Aura and LWC components are conceptually different technologies with different coding patterns.

mentioned alongside Lightning Components in 12% (881) of relevant job posts

Visual Force

Visualforce is an older Salesforce technology for building user interfaces, serving as an alternative to Lightning Components for creating custom pages and functionalities.

mentioned alongside Lightning Components in 11% (625) of relevant job posts

Lightning Components Complementary Technologies

Apex

Apex is Salesforce's proprietary programming language, used to add business logic to Lightning Components and is essential for backend functionality.

mentioned alongside Lightning Components in 14% (10.9k) of relevant job posts

SOQL

SOQL (Salesforce Object Query Language) is used within Lightning Components (and Apex) to query data from the Salesforce database.

mentioned alongside Lightning Components in 14% (3k) of relevant job posts

SOSL

SOSL (Salesforce Object Search Language) is used within Lightning Components (and Apex) to search for specific data across multiple Salesforce objects.

mentioned alongside Lightning Components in 19% (1.4k) of relevant job posts