Lightning Web Components
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What is Lightning Web Components?
Lightning Web Components (LWC) is a web component framework developed by Salesforce for building user interfaces on the Salesforce platform. It leverages web standards to provide a modern development experience. LWC is commonly used to create custom UI elements, applications, and components that integrate seamlessly with Salesforce data and functionality. It emphasizes performance, security, and reusability of code.
What other technologies are related to Lightning Web Components?
Lightning Web Components Competitor Technologies
Visualforce
Visualforce is an older Salesforce technology for building user interfaces. LWC is a newer, more performant alternative for creating user interfaces.
Aura Components
Aura Components are another framework for building user interfaces in Salesforce. LWC is now the preferred framework by Salesforce.
Aura
Aura is the framework that underlies Aura Components. LWC is a different and preferred framework by Salesforce.
Visualforce Pages
Visualforce is an older Salesforce technology for building user interfaces. LWC is the newer, more performant alternative.
Lightning Components
Lightning Components is a generic term encompassing both Aura Components and LWC. LWC is the newer model.
Number of organizations that mention technology
5,210
Lightning Web Components
9,358
Visualforce
1,035
Aura Components
2,343
Aura
678
Visualforce Pages
4,290
Lightning Components
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Lightning Web Components Complementary Technologies
Apex
Apex is a proprietary programming language that works in conjunction with LWC to handle complex business logic and data manipulation on the Salesforce platform.
SOQL
SOQL (Salesforce Object Query Language) is used to query data within LWC components from the Salesforce database.
SOSL
SOSL (Salesforce Object Search Language) is a search language similar to SOQL and often used alongside LWC.
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Which job functions commonly mention Lightning Web Components?
Salesforce Developer
14.6% of all Salesforce Developer jobs mention Lightning Web Components
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Salesforce Administrator
11.0% of all Salesforce Administrator jobs mention Lightning Web Components
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Information Technology
0.8% of all Information Technology jobs mention Lightning Web Components
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Cloud Engineer
0.2% of all Cloud Engineer jobs mention Lightning Web Components
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Software Engineer
1822 Software Engineer jobs mention Lightning Web Components
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Which organizations are mentioning Lightning Web Components?
Salesforce
Scientific and Technical Services
Amazon
Retail Trade
Deloitte
Professional Services
PwC
Professional Services
JPMorgan Chase
Finance and Insurance
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