Lightning Components
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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.
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.
Lightning Web Components
Lightning Web Components (LWC) is another Salesforce technology for building user interfaces, serving as an alternative to Aura Lightning Components.
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.
LWC
LWC (Lightning Web Components) is another Salesforce technology for building user interfaces, serving as an alternative to Aura Lightning Components.
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.
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.
Number of organizations that mention technology
4,290
Lightning Components
9,358
Visualforce
5,210
Lightning Web Components
678
Visualforce Pages
4,320
LWC
2,343
Aura
1,926
Visual Force
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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.
SOQL
SOQL (Salesforce Object Query Language) is used within Lightning Components (and Apex) to query data from the Salesforce database.
SOSL
SOSL (Salesforce Object Search Language) is used within Lightning Components (and Apex) to search for specific data across multiple Salesforce objects.
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Which job functions commonly mention Lightning Components?
Salesforce Developer
10.2% of all Salesforce Developer jobs mention Lightning Components
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Salesforce Administrator
7.8% of all Salesforce Administrator jobs mention Lightning Components
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Information Technology
0.6% of all Information Technology jobs mention Lightning Components
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Software Engineer
1203 Software Engineer jobs mention Lightning Components
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Engineer
1344 Engineer jobs mention Lightning Components
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Which organizations are mentioning Lightning Components?
Deloitte
Professional Services
Salesforce
Scientific and Technical Services
JPMorgan Chase
Finance and Insurance
PwC
Professional Services
Capgemini
Professional Services
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