Lightning Communities Developer Guide

Get Up to Speed with Lightning Communities
Before You Begin
What Is Salesforce Lightning?
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: Lightning Locker and CSP
Analyze and Improve Community Performance
Use a CMS with Your Community
Report on Deflections: The Deflection Signals Framework
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. Develop custom components that other developers and admins can use as reusable building blocks to customize Communities, the Salesforce mobile app, and Lightning Experience.
  • Lightning App Builder empowers admins to build Lightning pages visually, without code, using off-the-shelf and custom-built Lightning components. Make your Lightning components available in the Lightning App Builder so administrators can build custom user interfaces without code.
  • Experience Builder empowers admins to build communities visually using Lightning templates and components. Make your Lightning components available in Experience Builder so administrators can build community pages without code.
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 mobile 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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