# Salesforce Lightning Web Components (LWC)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/salesforce/salesforce-lightning-web-components/  
**Provider:** Salesforce — https://apis.io/providers/salesforce/  
**Base URL:** https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/lwc  
**Documentation:** https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/lwc/overview

Salesforce Lightning Web Components (LWC) is one of 294 APIs that [Salesforce](https://apis.io/providers/salesforce/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Components, JavaScript, Lightning, LWC, and UI Framework. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, a getting-started guide, an API reference, and a GitHub repository.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (5)

- **Documentation** — https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/lwc/overview
- **GettingStarted** — https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/lwc/guide/get-started-lwc.html
- **APIReference** — https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/lwc/guide/reference.html
- **APIReference** — https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/lwc/guide/reference-ui-api.html
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/salesforce/lwc

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- [Salesforce GraphQL API](https://apis.io/apis/salesforce/salesforce-graphql-api/)

## Tags

Components, JavaScript, Lightning, LWC, UI Framework

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