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
Lightning Container Component Limits
The Lightning Realty App
lightning-container NPM Module Reference
addErrorHandler()
addMessageHandler()
callApex()
getRESTAPISessionKey()
removeErrorHandler()
removeMessageHandler()
sendMessage()
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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sendMessage()

Sends a message from the framed JavaScript code to the Aura component.

Sample

Used within a JavaScript app uploaded as a static resource and referenced by lightning:container, this example sends a message from the app to lightning:container.
1sendMessage() {
2  LCC.sendMessage({name: "General", value: this.state.messageToSend});
3}

You can view and download this example in the Developerforce Github Repository.

Arguments

Name Type Description
userMsg any While the data sent in the message is entirely under your control, by convention it’s an object with name and value fields.

Response

None.