Documentation helps developers use your components to develop their apps more effectively. You can provide interactive examples, documentation, and specification descriptions for
- Component
- Event
- Interface.
Author: Akhil Kulkarni
Style in Lightning Bundle
Sometimes there will be scenario where you need to define specific set of style to the tags that are used in component. This is similar to how style tags are defined in normal HTML pages or Visualforce pages. Only difference is style name definition will start with .THIS keyword. You can also define specific style tags for other devices like, mobile or tablet etc using @media.
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Helper in lightning bundle is similar to controller where you write client-side javascript methods. These methods are more like reuseable methods which can be called from any controller method.
- Helper is similar to controller but helper does not handle events.
- Helper can be used to write reusable Javascript methods and these can be called from Controller section.
- Helper functions also enable specialization of tasks, such as processing data and queueing server-side actions.
- Helper methods are local to Component bundle.
- Helper methods can be called from any controller javascript methods.
- Declaring a helper method is similar to controller javascript method.
- A helper function can pass in any arguments required by the function, such as the component it belongs to, a callback, or any other objects.
- You can call a helper method from another helper method using this. operation.
Controller in Lightning Bundle
Controller handle client-side events in lightning bundle. It’s a JavaScript resource that defines the functions for all of the component’s actions. A client-side controller is a JavaScript object in object-literal notation containing a map of name-value pairs. Function can represent an action event. Client-side controllers are surrounded by parentheses and curly braces. Separate action handlers with commas.
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Component is where you do actual UI design for the module that is being developed. Lightning has its own set of tags which are called aura tags. When you create a component with above steps you see salesforce created a default tag for lightning component.
<aura:component >
// User Interface Code Here.
</aura:component>
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