The concept of web components
With web components, you can do almost anything that can be done with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and they can be a portable component that can be re-used easily.
Lightning Components are based on this idea, where each individual component consists of one or multiple components that use Apex, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS on top of Salesforce metadata to build a completely functional unit that can work on multiple Salesforce instances and multiple pages.
To understand how web components work, let's consider the following image. This shows how a page can have multiple components. It's also important to note that, since each of the components can consist of data from a third party, and if components from different namespaces ...
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