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Learning Salesforce Lightning Application Development
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Learning Salesforce Lightning Application Development

by Mohit Shrivatsava
July 2018
Beginner to intermediate
458 pages
9h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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Third-party JavaScript libraries in Lightning Components

Salesforce Lightning Component framework provides the ltng:require tag, which allows you to add one or more JavaScript files referenced from Salesforce static resources to Lightning Components. When you use the ltng:require tag, the JavaScript loaded has the ability to manipulate the DOM within the component's boundaries.

In this section, we will take a third-party JavaScript library called flipclock.js to build a Lightning Component that displays a flipclock. Note that flipclock.js is completely compatible with locker and hence we do not need any modifications to the original library source code. Later, in the Creating a Locker Service-compliant JavaScript bundle using webpack section, ...

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