Hello friends, In this post, we are talking about Salesforce Lightning, a graphical user interface (GUI) that is optimized for Speed by Salesfroce.com.

After completing this unit, you’ll able to:
  • Describe Salesforce Lightning.
  • Describe Lighting key highlights
  • Describe Lightning features.
So let's start,

What is Salesforce Lightning?

Lightning (Salesforce Lightning) is a component-based framework including some exciting tools for developers to build a responsive application for any device.  This framework introduced by Salesforce.com to simplify processes for business users, who typically do not have programming knowledge. Salesforce Lightning is a significant upgrade from classic Salesforce view, bringing modern appearance and functionality to Salesforce Platform. In this framework, we can use JavaScript, HTML, and CSS to create a responsive application. 



Lightning technologies

Salesforce lightning contains these technologies,

Lightning App Builder: empowers you to build apps visually, without any code. It contains a very awesome feature that people of nowadays like very much, drag and drop. By using some interface in Lightning component you make available in the Lightning App builder so admin user can build custom UI without any code.

Lightning Component Framework: This framework give you a client-server feature that accelerates development, as well as improve app performance that makes component ideal for Salesforce mobile app and Salesforce Lightning experience.

AppExchange for Components: This is an online pre-build lighting ready component store that will use in-app builder.

Salesforce Lightning Design System (SLDS): This design system offer style guides and user experience that is very helpful for app and component development.

Lightning Connect: It’s an integration tool that allows a seamless way to view, search, and modify data that’s stored outside from Salesforce Org.

Using these technologies, you can easily develop and deploy apps to mobile and desktop devices.

Why use the Salesforce Lightning Framework?

 Some outstanding feature that makes Lightning framework user-friendly and widely used framework are:
  1. Rich component ecosystem.
  2. Performance.
  3. Out of the box component set.
  4. Faster development
  5. Event-driven architecture
  6.  Device-aware and cross-browser compatibility.
Highlights of Salesforce Lightning

The three main features which could be highlight are:
  • Locker Service
  • Inspector
  • CLI
Key features of Lightning Experience

The main key features of Salesforce Lightning Experience are:

Log a Call, New Task, New Event and Send an Email: These actions are the move to the composer from object’s page layout.

Post and Poll: This standard chatter action moves in the composer on the Chatter tab in Lightning Experience.

Standard and Custom Button: Object’s layout standard button and other Global and object specific action, Visualforce page and Canvas actions appear in the action menu.

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Conclusion
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