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Learning Salesforce Lightning Application Development

You're reading from   Learning Salesforce Lightning Application Development Build and test Lightning Components for Salesforce Lightning Experience using Salesforce DX

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787124677
Length 458 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mohit Shrivatsava Mohit Shrivatsava
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Preface 1. Introduction to the Lightning Component Framework FREE CHAPTER 2. Exploring Salesforce DX 3. Lightning Component Building Blocks 4. The Lightning JavaScript API 5. Events in the Lightning Component Framework 6. Lightning Data Service and Base Components 7. Using External JavaScript Libraries in Lightning Components 8. Debugging Lightning Components 9. Performance Tuning Your Lightning Component 10. Taking Lightning Components out of Salesforce Using Lightning Out 11. Lightning Flows 12. Making Components Available for Salesforce Mobile and Communities 13. Lightning Navigation and Lightning Console APIs 14. Unit Testing Lightning Components 15. Publishing Lightning Components on AppExchange 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Lightning Out for unauthenticated users


In the last section, we required a connected app and authentication from  Salesforce to render the Lightning Component. Authentication is needed if you want the application to securely fetch data from Salesforce using the user credentials.

However, let's say you want a non-secure component to be hosted on your site. An example could be a simple web to read form or a contact information collection form, and you do not want your users to log in.

For this scenario, the Lightning Out application will implement a special interface named ltng:allowGuestAccess and you will also need to create a Salesforce community that is published for the public.

Let's take a step-by-step walkthrough of how to take components outside Salesforce for unauthenticated users:

  1. Create a  Lightning Out dependency app that implements ltng:allowGuestAccess. The simple code modification to our YouTube Lightning Out application will be as follows. The name of the app is youtubesearchOutApp...
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