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Andrew Fawcett
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Andrew Fawcett

Andrew Fawcett has over 30 years of experience holding several software development-related roles with a focus around enterprise-level product architecture. He is experienced in managing all aspects of the software development life cycle across various technology platforms, frameworks, industry design patterns, and methodologies. He is currently a VP, Product Management, and a Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II at Salesforce. He is responsible for several key platform features and emergent products for Salesforce. He is an avid blogger, open source contributor and project owner, and an experienced speaker. He loves watching movies, Formula 1 motor racing, and building Lego!
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Exposing components with Lightning Out

Lightning Out is a JavaScript library that can be imported into regular HTML pages, such as Visualforce pages, and other websites or other containers, such as Google Apps. Once imported, it exposes an API that allows the page developer to instantiate a Lightning component and inject it into a given HTML element on that page. The host page must provide a Salesforce session or OAuth token to allow this to happen in a secure way.

At the time of writing, Lightning Out does not support Lightning Web Components. In the meantime, you can wrap them in Aura-based components to work around this. Check the documentation for the latest on this here: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/component-library/documentation/lwc/migrate_bundles.

The process of using Lightning Out for Visualforce pages is simplified through the use of...

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Andrew Fawcett

Andrew Fawcett has over 30 years of experience holding several software development-related roles with a focus around enterprise-level product architecture. He is experienced in managing all aspects of the software development life cycle across various technology platforms, frameworks, industry design patterns, and methodologies. He is currently a VP, Product Management, and a Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II at Salesforce. He is responsible for several key platform features and emergent products for Salesforce. He is an avid blogger, open source contributor and project owner, and an experienced speaker. He loves watching movies, Formula 1 motor racing, and building Lego!
Read more about Andrew Fawcett