Lightning Aura Components Developer Guide

What Is the Lightning Component Framework?
Quick Start
Creating Components
Using Components
Communicating with Events
Communicating Across the DOM with Lightning Message Service
Creating Apps
Styling Apps
Developing Secure Code
Using JavaScript
Working with Salesforce Data
Lightning Data Service
Using Apex
Creating Server-Side Logic with Controllers
Apex Server-Side Controller Overview
AuraEnabled Annotation
Creating an Apex Server-Side Controller
Using Apex to Work with Salesforce Records
Granting User Access for Apex Classes
Securing Data in Apex Controllers
Calling a Server-Side Action
Passing Data to an Apex Controller
Returning Data from an Apex Server-Side Controller
Returning Errors from an Apex Server-Side Controller
Queueing of Server-Side Actions
Foreground and Background Actions
Storable Actions
Abortable Actions
Testing Your Apex Code
Making API Calls from Apex
Make Long-Running Callouts with Continuations
Creating Components in Apex
Testing Components with Lightning Testing Service
Debugging
Performance
Reference
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Queueing of Server-Side Actions

The framework queues up actions before sending them to the server. This mechanism is largely transparent to you when you’re writing code but it enables the framework to minimize network traffic by batching multiple actions into one request (XHR).

The batching of actions is also known as boxcar’ing, similar to a train that couples boxcars together.

The framework uses a stack to keep track of the actions to send to the server. When the browser finishes processing events and JavaScript on the client, the enqueued actions on the stack are sent to the server in a batch.

If your action is not executing, make sure that you’re not executing code outside the framework’s normal rerendering lifecycle. For example, if you use window.setTimeout() in an event handler to execute some logic after a time delay, wrap your code in $A.getCallback().

Tip

There are some properties that you can set on an action to influence how the framework manages the action while it’s in the queue waiting to be sent to the server. For more information, see: