- Joseph K
Web Components at Scale at Salesforce: Challenges Encountered, Lessons Learnt
Diego Ferreiro Val, principal architect at Salesforce and co-creator of Lightning Web Components (LWC), talked in WebComponentsSF about the challenges and lessons of building a platform leveraging web components at enterprise scale. Albeit with missing pieces, the web components standard was instrumental to achieve Salesforce’s interoperability, backward and forward compatibility objectives at scale. Ferreiro started by presenting the specific constraints of Salesforce. Among other services, Salesforce sells a platform for customers to implement their own enterprise application, and as such must be completely customizable. Customers may thus create their own components, objects, and user interfaces. Ferreiro quoted the following business requirements for the platform: