Lightning Web Components

LWCs are the best parts of Aura Components, but have been updated to modern web standards. As Google slowly took over the internet, they widely introduced the concept of a standard web component. A standard web component is essentially a framework that allows developers to create reusable, modular blocks of code that browsers can easily digest and load. While Aura shifted the focus from mere markup languages to facilitating full-blown applications, LWCs took this work to the next level by leveraging Google’s Web Component standards and DOM: a logic tree data model that represents the structure of the website. Fun fact: this is why Salesforce Lightning works best in Google Chrome.

As mentioned earlier, the primary systemic difference between an Aura component and a LWC is that LWCs leverage standard Salesforce architecture, but follow common web development languages such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. LWCs’ adherence to standard web technologies...