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What is Lightning Web Components (LWC)?
Lightning Web Components (LWC) is Salesforce's modern frontend framework built on native Web Components standards. It runs directly inside browsers, utilizing shadow DOM, ECMAScript modules, and reactive rendering for high runtime performance. LWC communicates with the Salesforce backend via Lightning Data Service (LDS) or wire adapters to cache database queries.
LWC Architecture Rules
- •Data Services (LDS): Use wire adapters to query and synchronize data. It utilizes client-side caching for auto-refreshing layouts.
- •Component Communication: Communicate up the hierarchy via custom DOM events, and communicate down by passing public properties annotated with @api.
- •Security Sandboxing: Runs within Lightning Locker or LWS to enforce secure scripting and restrict unauthorized cross-namespace access.
Wire Adapters vs. Imperative Apex
Provides automatic caching, synchronization, and reactive updates managed by LDS.
Fires on-demand (e.g., button clicks) and bypasses LDS cache unless annotated with cacheable=true.
LWC Pillars.
LWC experts are evaluated on how they handle asynchronous reactivity, browser caching, and component architectures.
Component Reactivity
Leveraging reactive properties and track decorators to dynamically update layouts based on state changes.
Data Services
Configuring Lightning Data Service (LDS) wire adapters for automatic client-side caching.
Messaging Architecture
Implementing parent-child custom events and Lightning Message Service (LMS) for decoupled components.
LWC Technical Questions
What is the difference between @wire and imperative Apex calls in LWC?
"@wire is reactive and automatically pulls data, while imperative calls require you to trigger them using a button."
@wire adapters are built on Lightning Data Service, providing automatic caching, reactivity, and synchronization across the client database. They re-evaluate automatically when parameter values change. Imperative calls do not cache data by default (unless annotated with cacheable=true), are not reactive to parameter changes, and are used when data needs to be fetched on-demand (e.g. click events or transactional commits).
How do you communicate between sibling components that share no parent-child relationship?
"I use custom events to bubble data up to a container page and then push it down to the sibling component."
While custom events bubble data up to parent containers, communicating between decoupled sibling components or components in different regions (like utility bar vs main panel) is handled via Lightning Message Service (LMS). You create a Lightning Message Channel metadata file and publish messages to it. Decoupled siblings subscribe to the channel to capture payload changes in real-time.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the core LWC lifecycle hooks?
How do you force-refresh a @wire adapter?
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