Play by Play: Understanding Lightning Web Components for non-Salesforce Developers

This course provides an introduction to the Salesforce Platform for standard web developers, and describes how the Web Component specification is implemented inside the Salesforce ecosystem.

Play by Play is a series in which top technologists work through a problem in real time, unrehearsed, and unscripted. In this course, Play by Play: Understanding Lightning Web Components for non-Salesforce Developers, Adam Daw and Don Robins discuss the Web Component standard in 2019, Salesforce Existing Offerings, how to leverage Lightning Web Components in Salesforce, and then introduce more complex implementations of Lightning Web Components. Along the way we acquaint the audience with foundational Salesforce developer technologies such as working with Salesforce data, the Apex programming language, the Lightning Locker Service, and more.

• Course Overview 2mins
• Introduction and Setting the Stage 6mins
• The Modern Componentized Web 10mins
• Introducing the Salesforce Platform 16mins
• How Do You Use Lightning Web Components? 16mins
• Summary and Recap 3mins