Lightning Aura Components Developer Guide

What Is the Lightning Component Framework?
Quick Start
Creating Components
Using Components
Aura Component Bundle Design Resources
Use Aura Components in Lightning Experience and the Salesforce Mobile App
Navigate Across Your Apps with Page References
Get Your Aura Components Ready to Use on Lightning Pages
Use Aura Components in Community Builder
Use Aura Components with Flows
Add Components to Apps
Integrate Your Custom Apps into the Chatter Publisher
Using Background Utility Items
Use Lightning Components in Visualforce Pages
Add Aura Components to Any App with Lightning Out (Beta)
Lightning Container
Using a Third-Party Framework
Sending Messages from the Lightning Container Component
Sending Messages to the Lightning Container Component
Handling Errors in Your Container
Using Apex Services from Your Container
Lightning Container Component Limits
The Lightning Realty App
lightning-container NPM Module Reference
Communicating with Events
Creating Apps
Styling Apps
Developing Secure Code
Using JavaScript
Working with Salesforce Data
Using Apex
Testing Components with Lightning Testing Service
Debugging
Performance
Reference
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Using Apex Services from Your Container

Use the lightning-container NPM module to call Apex methods from your Lightning container component.

To call Apex methods from lightning:container, you must set the CSP level to low in the manifest.json file. A CSP level of low allows the Lightning container component load resources from outside of the Lightning domain.

This is an Aura component that includes a Lightning container component that uses Apex services:
This is the component’s controller:

You can download the complete version of this example from the Developerforce Github Repository.

Note

There’s not a lot going on in the component’s JavaScript controller—the real action is in the JavaScript app, uploaded as a static resource, that the Lightning container references.

The first function, callApex(), uses the LCC.callApex method to call getAccount, an Apex method that gets and displays an account’s information.