Salesforce Lightning Web Components (LWC)

Lightning Web Components (LWC) is Salesforce's standards-based JavaScript framework for building UI components on the Salesforce platform. It uses modern web standards including custom elements, templates, and decorators, and provides a reactive wire service for accessing Salesforce data via Lightning Data Service. LWC is the recommended component model for Lightning Experience, Experience Cloud, and Salesforce mobile, superseding the legacy Aura framework.

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aid: salesforce:salesforce-lightning-web-components
name: Salesforce Lightning Web Components (LWC)
description: Lightning Web Components (LWC) is Salesforce's standards-based JavaScript framework for building
  UI components on the Salesforce platform. It uses modern web standards including custom elements, templates,
  and decorators, and provides a reactive wire service for accessing Salesforce data via Lightning Data
  Service. LWC is the recommended component model for Lightning Experience, Experience Cloud, and Salesforce
  mobile, superseding the legacy Aura framework.
image: https://www.salesforce.com/content/dam/sfdc-docs/www/logos/logo-salesforce.svg
humanURL: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/lwc/overview
baseURL: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/lwc
properties:
- url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/lwc/overview
  type: Documentation
- url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/lwc/guide/get-started-lwc.html
  type: GettingStarted
- url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/lwc/guide/reference.html
  type: APIReference
- url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/lwc/guide/reference-ui-api.html
  type: APIReference
- url: https://github.com/salesforce/lwc
  type: GitHubRepository
tags:
- Components
- JavaScript
- Lightning
- LWC
- UI Framework