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  • Why more developers should consider Lightning Web Components in Salesforce?

    Posted by Pooja on May 18, 2020 at 2:51 pm

    Why more developers should consider Lightning Web Components in Salesforce?

    MOHIT replied 4 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • MOHIT

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    May 18, 2020 at 3:58 pm

    Huge demand for skilled developers
    Today, the need for Salesforce developers is huge. However, finding the right and best developer is often one of the most challenging tasks faced by the IT industry. More skilled professionals would help relieve the client’s anxiety by dealing with business issues more efficiently.
    The biggest advantage of having more talented and certified Salesforce developers is that they will be able to delegate the tasks adequately. Developers can leverage lightning web components and take a big step forward for accelerating component-based development. Based on modern, standard-based javascript, LWC allows developers to use the tool to build components for lightning using standards-based tools.
    Less Training of framework
    Before using LWC, web developers had to learn about the Aura framework to build custom web applications. When Salesforce launched the lightning framework, they were in search of the programming model that could support large scale client-side applications. So, when Salesforce couldn’t find the right programming model, they introduce their own programming model (Aura component) to support the Lightning Framework.
    But when Aura programming model came into power, it has its own challenges. Nevertheless, frameworks such as React, Angular, and Lightning are all JavaScript frameworks, the skills were not transferable to the Aura model. These were the major issue noticed by Salesforce and there was a need for moving towards open web standards that address some of the technical debts. With the announcement of LWC, today’s web stack looks completely new and interactive and focuses more on web standards and less on the framework.
    LWC and Aura can work together
    LWC and Aura use Lightning Data services to get engage with the Salesforce Platform. With the introduction of LWC, Salesforce now has two programming models for building lightning components. Well, in some cases, Aura and LWC components can even be merge in a single page and can share the same data.
    Aura and LWC can interact with each other and their child components through events. Aura uses the Application and Components event to communicate with child communicate or other Aura components. LWC utilizes Custom events to communicate with Aura Components.
    Better security support and services
    Lightning Locker service is a robust security architecture for lightning components. Lightning locker enhances security by wrapping each lightning component in its own container and allowing developers to manage access to APIs and framework internals. Locker service is enabled by default for all custom LWC. It promotes JavaScript security best practices for securing their Lightning web components and improving the supportability of your code.
    Systematic Testing & Standardized Support
    Jest is a powerful and delightful JavaScript Testing Framework created by Facebook, with customized features for creating javascript tests. Salesforce has given developers an extension of the Jest Framework for writing unit tests for Lightning web components. This testing framework can execute from a local machine, a command line, or a Visual Studio Code.

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