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Show Lightning component on public website without authentication

posted by Jitendra on June 5, 2017June 5, 2017 under category Salesforce and tagged as Lightning component, Lightning out with 3 Comments

How to show Lightning component on public sites without need of user authentication

I have posted few articles on Lightning Out. In this post, we will see how Lightning components can be displayed on public website. To access these Lightning components, users don’t need to login to Salesforce.

For this post, I will consider Text slider component created in this post. Using this same method, I have displayed Live demo of Lightning component on wordpress blog. Continue reading “Show Lightning component on public website without authentication”

Use Lightning Components on external websites – Lightning Out

posted by Jitendra on April 5, 2017April 6, 2017 under category Lightning, Salesforce and tagged as CORS, CORS enabled Nodejs, Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS), Lightning component, Lightning out, NodeJs, OAuth, OpenSSL, SSL, SSL enabled Nodejs, X.509 Certificate with 14 Comments

How to use Lightning component in node.js (External websites) by using Lightning Out. It shows how to enable CORS and SSL in Node.js with Video and complete source code.

If you were the users of IGoogle, few years back, you would be excited to know that web development is progressing in that direction. Architect of web application development is getting shifted towards component based development by introducing concepts like Web Components and frameworks like polymer and Lightning Components. One of the possible use case of component driven development is ability to use whole component externally. In IGoogle, components were built by partners and then was exposed as widgets to be used on your custom Google home page. Salesforce product team, being visionary came up something like this by introducing Lightning Out. With the help of Lightning Out, we can surface our existing Lightning Component to external websites. Previously, we already discussed that how Lightning components can be used on Visualforce pages using Lightning Out.

Let’s see how we can do it. Continue reading “Use Lightning Components on external websites – Lightning Out”

Use Lightning Component in Visualforce Page

posted by Jitendra on September 22, 2016April 5, 2017 under category Salesforce and tagged as Lightning component, Lightning out with 15 Comments

How to use Lightning Out to surface Lightning Component on Visualforce Pages

In all of my projects currently, I have stopped creating Visualforce code. well, thats partially correct ;). I still need Visualforce page because most my clients are still on classic / Aloha Salesforce. However, If you have noticed, all Salesforce release notes, talks, webinars, Dreamforce focuses on Lightning experience. And I can say with confidence that Lightning is really really very cool. Sky is limit to your imagination, You can unleash hidden talent within you. Well, all talk talk… and you may be thinking, how can I start with Lightning Component? My client don’t even want to move away from classic. Its lots of work and money for them.

Well, here is an Idea what I am doing. I still uses Salesforce classic, still uses Visualforce but behind the scene, magic… tadaaa , Lightning Component. I will show walk you through this, how its being done.

We will use existing Flipcard Lightning Component to display on Visualforce page. Once Lightning Component is created, we need to create a Lightning Application to act an as a container. Continue reading “Use Lightning Component in Visualforce Page”