Visual Force Insights

What is Visual Force?

Visualforce is a markup language and component-based framework developed by Salesforce for creating custom user interfaces on the Salesforce platform. It allows developers to build sophisticated, reusable interfaces by using a tag-based syntax similar to HTML, along with powerful controllers that provide data and logic. It is commonly used to customize the Salesforce user experience, develop custom applications, and integrate with other systems.

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What other technologies are related to Visual Force?

Visual Force Competitor Technologies

Lightning

Lightning, including Lightning Components and LWC, is a modern framework for building Salesforce UIs and is generally favored for new development over Visualforce.

mentioned alongside Visual Force in 9% (1k) of relevant job posts

LWC

Lightning Web Components (LWC) are a more modern alternative to Visualforce for building user interfaces in Salesforce.

mentioned alongside Visual Force in 7% (1.2k) of relevant job posts

Lightning Web Components

Lightning Web Components (LWC) offer a modern approach to building Salesforce UIs, providing a clear alternative to Visualforce for new development.

mentioned alongside Visual Force in 5% (792) of relevant job posts

Lightning Components

Lightning Components (Aura) is a modern UI framework and a competitor to visualforce.

mentioned alongside Visual Force in 5% (625) of relevant job posts

Aura

Aura Components is the older version of Lightning Components framework.

mentioned alongside Visual Force in 6% (475) of relevant job posts

Visual Force Complementary Technologies

Apex

Apex is the programming language used to implement the business logic behind Visualforce pages.

mentioned alongside Visual Force in 6% (5.1k) of relevant job posts

Schedule Apex

Scheduled Apex allows you to schedule Apex classes to run at specific times, often used in conjunction with Visualforce for tasks like generating reports.

mentioned alongside Visual Force in 50% (531) of relevant job posts

VF Components

Visualforce components are reusable elements that enhance Visualforce pages.

mentioned alongside Visual Force in 49% (457) of relevant job posts