Lightning Components Developer Guide

What is the Lightning Component Framework?
What is Salesforce Lightning?
Why Use the Lightning Component Framework?
Components
Events
Open Source Aura Framework
Browser Support Considerations for Lightning Components
Using the Developer Console
Quick Start
Creating Components
Using Components
Communicating with Events
Creating Apps
Debugging
Fixing Performance Warnings
Reference
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What is Salesforce Lightning?

Lightning includes the Lightning Component Framework and some exciting tools for developers. Lightning makes it easier to build responsive applications for any device.

Lightning includes these technologies:

  • Lightning components give you a client-server framework that accelerates development, as well as app performance, and is ideal for use with the Salesforce mobile app and Salesforce Lightning Experience.
  • 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. You can make your Lightning components available in the Lightning App Builder so administrators can build custom user interfaces without code.

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

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