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
Configure Components for Custom Tabs
Add Aura Components as Custom Tabs in a Lightning Experience App
Lightning Component Actions
Override Standard Actions with Aura Components
Navigate Across Your Apps with Page References
Get Your Aura Components Ready to Use on Lightning Pages
Use Aura Components in Experience 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
Communicating with Events
Communicating Across the DOM with Lightning Message Service
Creating Apps
Styling Apps
Developing Secure Code
Using JavaScript
Working with Salesforce Data
Testing Components with Lightning Testing Service
Debugging
Performance
Reference
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Add Aura Components as Custom Tabs in a Lightning Experience App

Make your Aura components available for Lightning Experience users on desktop and in the Salesforce mobile app by displaying them in a custom tab in a Lightning Experience app.
Enable My Domain
To display an Aura component in a custom tab in a Lightning Experience app, you must enable and deploy My Domain.
Configure Your Component for Custom Tab Usage
See Configure Components for Custom Tabs.

Follow these steps to include your component in a Lightning Experience app and make it available to desktop and mobile users in your org.

  1. Create a custom tab for the component.
    1. From Setup, enter Tabs in the Quick Find box, then select Tabs.
    2. Click New in the Lightning Component Tabs related list.
    3. Select the Lightning component that you want to make available to users.
    4. Enter a label to display on the tab.
    5. Select the tab style and click Next.
    6. When prompted to add the tab to profiles, accept the default and click Save.
      Your Lightning component is now available from the All Items section of the App Launcher on desktop, and the All Items navigation menu item in the Salesforce mobile app.
  2. To check your output, navigate to the App Launcher in Lightning Experience on desktop or in the Salesforce mobile app. Select the custom app to see the components that you added.