Salesforce Lightning Insights

What is Salesforce Lightning?

Salesforce Lightning is a component-based framework for building responsive and dynamic web applications within the Salesforce ecosystem. It allows developers to create modern user interfaces for desktop and mobile devices, improving the user experience and productivity. It's commonly used for creating custom Salesforce pages, applications, and communities, replacing or extending the standard Salesforce Classic interface.

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What other technologies are related to Salesforce Lightning?

Salesforce Lightning Competitor Technologies

Visualforce

Visualforce is an older Salesforce technology for building user interfaces. While still supported, Lightning is the newer, preferred framework.

mentioned alongside Salesforce Lightning in 7% (2.8k) of relevant job posts

Salesforce Visualforce

Visualforce is an older Salesforce technology for building user interfaces. While still supported, Lightning is the newer, preferred framework.

mentioned alongside Salesforce Lightning in 68% (248) of relevant job posts

VF Remoting

VF Remoting is a feature of Visualforce that enables asynchronous communication with the server. It is a predecessor to more modern approaches used with Lightning.

mentioned alongside Salesforce Lightning in 82% (75) of relevant job posts

Force.com Ajax Toolkit

The Force.com AJAX Toolkit was used with Visualforce for client-side interactions. Lightning has replaced it with more modern methods.

mentioned alongside Salesforce Lightning in 81% (55) of relevant job posts

VF Components

Visualforce components are an older technology. While they can be included in Lightning Pages using Visualforce in Lightning, they should be replaced by LWC wherever possible

mentioned alongside Salesforce Lightning in 21% (193) of relevant job posts

Salesforce Lightning Complementary Technologies

Apex

Apex is a proprietary programming language used within the Salesforce platform, often used to extend and customize Lightning components and applications.

mentioned alongside Salesforce Lightning in 6% (4.6k) of relevant job posts

Lighting Web Component

Lightning Web Components (LWC) is the modern framework for building user interfaces on the Salesforce platform and is a core part of the Lightning experience.

mentioned alongside Salesforce Lightning in 80% (166) of relevant job posts

Lightning Data Service

Lightning Data Service (LDS) provides a standardized way to access and manage Salesforce data within Lightning components, promoting data consistency and performance.

mentioned alongside Salesforce Lightning in 45% (193) of relevant job posts