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Lightning Web Components vs React

Developers should learn LWC when building applications on the Salesforce platform, as it is the primary UI framework for Salesforce Lightning Experience, enabling the creation of dynamic, responsive, and performant user interfaces meets pick react when you need the deepest hiring pool and widest library ecosystem for a complex, long-lived spa or a next. Here's our take.

🧊Nice Pick

Lightning Web Components

Nice Pick

Pros

+It is essential for customizing Salesforce apps, developing Lightning apps, or building standalone web components that interact with Salesforce APIs, making it a key skill for Salesforce developers and those in enterprise environments using Salesforce ecosystems
+Related to: salesforce, javascript

Cons

-Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case

React

Pick React when you need the deepest hiring pool and widest library ecosystem for a complex, long-lived SPA or a Next

Pros

+js product — that's still where most senior frontend candidates live
+Related to: next-js, typescript

Cons

-Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case

The Verdict

Use Lightning Web Components if: You want it is essential for customizing salesforce apps, developing lightning apps, or building standalone web components that interact with salesforce apis, making it a key skill for salesforce developers and those in enterprise environments using salesforce ecosystems and can live with specific tradeoffs depend on your use case.

Use React if: You prioritize js product — that's still where most senior frontend candidates live over what Lightning Web Components offers.

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The Bottom Line

Lightning Web Components wins

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