July 2018
Beginner to intermediate
458 pages
9h 58m
English
Before we start building Lightning Components, let's understand the architectural differences between how Lightning Components and Salesforce Classic Visualforce work.
In a traditional Classic Salesforce UI, every time a user clicks a link, an HTML page is loaded from the server. Even for small interactions, the whole web page or tab needs to be reloaded.
Lightning Experience is based on the concept of a Single-Page Application (SPA). In SPAs, once the page is loaded, for any other subsequent request of data from the server, an Ajax callout is made and the page is re-rendered with new data. The aim is to avoid the whole page refreshing.
The following diagram helps to visualize the difference between a single-page ...
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