LWR Sites for Experience Cloud

Develop sites that load quickly and scale well using the Build Your Own (LWR) template for Experience Cloud. Based on the new Lightning Web Runtime (LWR) and the Lightning Web Components (LWC) programming model, this lightweight template supports fully custom solutions and delivers exceptional site performance.

This guide outlines the steps required to successfully develop and deploy LWR-based experiences, and it explains how to:

Create Lightning web components for the template.
Build page and theme layouts.
Enable various complex custom solutions.

To better reflect the many types of connected digital experiences you can create—including portals, websites, help centers, forums, and mobile apps—Community Cloud is now called Experience Cloud.

So what's different? Terminology, for starters. Whether you’re creating a forum, portal, or any other type of digital experience, at the most basic level, you’re building an online site. So instead of saying community, which primarily connotes a forum where people interact with one another, we now use the term site in the user interface and documentation.

For more details on terminology changes, see the Spring ’21 Release Notes.

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