Let's understand value providers in Lightning Components, before diving deeper into attributes. Value providers hold data and provide a way to access that data. Lightning Components have two types of value providers out of the box. They are listed in the following table:
Value provider | Description |
| This allows access to the value of the attribute in the Component Markup. |
| This allows you to wire events and actions . |
An attribute is a placeholder to hold data. You can treat attributes like Java variables. The following is the syntax to define attributes:
<aura:component>
<aura:attribute name="searchString" type="String" default="lighnting components"/>
</aura:component>Name and data type are mandatory when defining attributes. An attribute can be one of the following types: primitive (string, integer, decimal, Boolean, double, date, dateTime), arrays (sets, list, maps), objects, custom Apex, functions, or Salesforce sobject....