Introducing Salesforce Standard UIs and Lightning

Choice can be a good thing, but sometimes, the choices are not very clear, especially when new technologies emerge and overlapping with existing ones. In this chapter and the next, we will be exploring features that help you make the choice between standard UIs provided by Salesforce, or building your own custom UIs or, in fact, balancing the use of both. With the advent of the new Lightning technology from Salesforce, deciding what technology to use for a given custom UI requires some consideration.

Salesforce has historically provided Visualforce as the recommended technology for building custom UIs. To some developers, it resembles Java Server Pages or .NET Active Server Pages, and is very powerful and stable. They also provide a great number of ways to extend their standard UIs with custom UIs built with Visualforce, allowing you to make the choice at a more granular function-by-function level, depending on what works best for your particular...