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What is Visualforce?
Visualforce is a component-based user interface framework for the Salesforce platform. It allows developers to create custom pages and user interfaces with HTML-like markup, optionally using a controller to enable interaction with the Salesforce database. It is commonly used for building custom applications, overriding standard Salesforce functionality, and creating mobile interfaces.
What other technologies are related to Visualforce?
Visualforce Competitor Technologies
Lightning Components
Lightning Components, especially Aura Components, are an alternative UI framework to Visualforce. They offer a more modern and performant approach to building Salesforce user interfaces.
Lightning Web Components
Lightning Web Components (LWC) are the latest generation of the Lightning Component framework and provide a more modern and standards-based approach to UI development compared to Visualforce.
LWC
LWC (Lightning Web Components) are a modern UI framework and a competitor to Visualforce for building Salesforce user interfaces.
Lightning
Lightning represents the overall modern Salesforce platform and includes Lightning Components and LWC, which are alternatives to Visualforce.
Aura
Aura is the original Lightning Component framework that predates LWC. It is an alternative to Visualforce for building user interfaces.
Salesforce Lightning
Salesforce Lightning is a modern UI framework (including LWC and Aura) that is an alternative to Visualforce.
Aura Components
Aura Components are an older version of Lightning Components and act as a competitor since they provide an alternative way of building UIs.
Lightning Component Framework
The Lightning Component Framework, including Aura and LWC, is a competitor to Visualforce as an alternative UI framework.
Number of organizations that mention technology
9,358
Visualforce
4,290
Lightning Components
5,210
Lightning Web Components
4,320
LWC
3,437
Lightning
2,343
Aura
2,753
Salesforce Lightning
1,035
Aura Components
468
Lightning Component Framework
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Visualforce Complementary Technologies
Apex
Apex is a proprietary programming language that is used with Visualforce to add logic and server-side processing to the user interface.
SOQL
SOQL (Salesforce Object Query Language) is used within Visualforce to query data from the Salesforce database.
SOSL
SOSL (Salesforce Object Search Language) is used within Visualforce to search for data across multiple Salesforce objects.
Number of organizations that mention technology
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Which job functions commonly mention Visualforce?
Salesforce Developer
37.2% of all Salesforce Developer jobs mention Visualforce
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Salesforce Administrator
23.5% of all Salesforce Administrator jobs mention Visualforce
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Information Technology
1.8% of all Information Technology jobs mention Visualforce
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Software Engineer
0.1% of all Software Engineer jobs mention Visualforce
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Engineer
0.1% of all Engineer jobs mention Visualforce
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Which organizations are mentioning Visualforce?
Salesforce
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