Ever-increasing demands of the business world have led to several path-breaking technological inventions, developments and upgradations. These inventions don’t just make tasks easy but also open up a whole new universe of possibilities for business and product ideas.
Salesforce Lightning is one of the biggest example of this phenomenon.
Read on to find out more about this new spectacle and how it is different from Salesforce Classic, its predecessor.
What is Salesforce Lightning?
- Lightning is a collection of tools and technologies behind a significant upgrade to the Salesforce platform.
- It is a component-centric architecture and performance is the key behind the success of this technology.
- Salesforce Lightning uses Lightning Component and Lightning App Builder to build salesforce apps.
- Salesforce1 mobile apps and Salesforce Lightning Experience are built with Lightning Components. With the help of Salesforce1, it is possible to customize and create new apps for mobile devices
- Lightning App Builder has the power to build apps without writing a single line of code and we can build Lightning Component and use them in Lightning App Builder to build the apps.
What is Lightning Component Framework?
- Basically, Lightning component framework is a UI framework used to develop dynamic web applications for desktop and mobile devices. It is the most recent framework used to build single-page Salesforce application.
- Lightning component framework is a client-server based framework. It uses JavaScript on client side and Apex on the server side.
- This framework is built on the open source Aura framework. This Aura framework allows you to build apps completely independent of your data in Salesforce.
What is Lightning Design Framework?
- Lightning design system is a CSS framework. With this design system, we can build custom applications with rich look and feel that is consistent with Salesforce core features.
- With the help of Lightning Design Framework developer and designers can work differently as developer can focus on application logic while designer can focus on UI.
Difference between Salesforce Classic and Salesforce Lightning
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Salesforce Classic
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Salesforce Lightning
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Architecture
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It has a Page centric architecture.
It uses Visualforce on front end and Apex on server side.
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It has a Component based architecture. It uses JavaScript on front end and Apex on server side.
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Performance
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Bit slower because of page centric architecture.
For small custom functionality, need to build Visualforce page which slows down speed of an application.
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Faster than Salesforce classic. JavaScript on client side which helps to make it faster.
Also, it uses data caching, storable technique which makes it faster.
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Design
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Salesforce classic uses Aloha theme which looks a bit traditional.
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Look and feel of UI is the main USP of Lightning framework.
It is more user friendly.
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Drag and Drop
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Drag and drop feature is not available in classic.
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Lightning supports drag and drop feature. Besides, Lightning apps can be built without writing single line of code.
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Responsive
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Apps built though Salesforce Visualforce aren’t responsive
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Lightning enables users to build responsive applications for any device.
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Benefits of Salesforce Lightning for Businesses/Customer
- As Salesforce is ready to migrate from Classic to Lightning, Classic will be deprecated slowly. In the impending days, Lightning will be the future of salesforce. So, this is the right time to migrate from Classic to Lightning with better user experience and mobile device compatibility.
- Lightning comes with attractive charts, dashboards which helps us to increases business productivity.
- To enhance customer’s business, building mobile application is the need of hour indeed and salesforce1 mobile apps helps customers with new Lightning experience.
- The Lightning Experience offers a consistent user experience across Salesforce.
- Lightning components are quick in building apps and customizations for desktops and mobile devices, using powerful drag-and drop-tools for apps, processes, and communities. Besides, no code is needed.
- Lightning Platform can connect customer’s entire business via various apps.
- Lightning ecosystem helps user to customize apps exactly as per user’s requirement without much coding.
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