Making components customizable
The components included in this chapter will appear in Lightning App Builder and are thus available for the developer and consumers of the package to drag and drop onto pages. The following screenshot shows how the components in this chapter appear in Lightning App Builder:
Figure 10.16: Components in Lightning App Builder
To further expose components and properties to Lightning tools such as Lightning App Builder, Lightning Community Builder, and Lightning Flow, you must reference them and their properties in your component metadata file.
Exposing parts of your application’s user interface as components in these tools is very powerful as it lets your other developers and administrators effectively build their own pages and experiences using the platform’s tools if needed. An example of configuring this type of access is shown in the following component metadata. This example is from race.js-meta.xml, which exposes the...
