Lightning Communities Developer Guide

Get Up to Speed with Lightning Communities
Before You Begin
What Is Salesforce Lightning?
What Is the Lightning Component Framework?
Which Lightning Template Do I Use?
Develop Lightning Communities: The Basics
Customize the Look and Feel of a Lightning Template
Example: Build a Condensed Theme Layout Component
Develop Secure Code: Locker Service and Stricter CSP
Analyze and Improve Community Performance
Connect Your Community to Your Content Management System
Deploy a Community from Sandbox to Production
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What Is Salesforce Lightning?

Salesforce Lightning makes it easier to build responsive applications for any device, and encompasses the Lightning Component framework and helpful tools for developers.
Lightning includes these technologies.
  • Lightning components accelerate development and app performance. The client-server framework is ideal for use with Communities, in addition to the Salesforce mobile app and Salesforce Lightning Experience.
  • Lightning App Builder empowers you to build Lightning pages visually, without code, 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.
  • Community Builder is used to design and build communities using Lightning templates and components. Just like the Lightning App Builder, you can use standard or custom components so that administrators can create community pages with point-and-click customizations.
Some Salesforce products built with underlying Salesforce Lightning technology include:
  • The Customer Service and Partner Central community templates
  • Lightning Bolt Solutions because they’re based on the Customer Service template
  • Lightning Experience
  • Salesforce app

You don’t need to enable Lightning Experience to use Lightning community templates or develop Lightning components. Lightning communities use the same underlying technology as Lightning Experience, but they’re independent of each other.

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