Introduction

Salesforce1 Lightning Overview

We’re in an increasingly multi-device world, so we’ve created Lightning to make it easy to build responsive applications for any screen. Lightning includes a number of exciting tools for developers, such as:

1. Lightning components give you a client-server framework that accelerates development, as well as app performance, and is ideal for use with the Salesforce1 mobile app
2. The Lightning App Builder empowers you to build apps visually, without code, quicker than ever before using off-the-shelf and custom-built Lightning components

Using these technologies, you can seamlessly customize and easily deploy new apps to mobile devices running Salesforce1. In fact, the Salesforce1 mobile app itself was built with Lightning components.

This guide will provide you with an in-depth resource to help you create your own stand-alone Lightning apps, as well as custom Lightning components that can be used in the Salesforce1 mobile app. You will also learn how to package applications and components and distribute them in the AppExchange.