Choice can be a good thing, but sometimes, the choices are not so clear, especially when new technologies are emerging and overlapping with existing ones. In this chapter and the next, we will be exploring features that help you make the choice between standard UIs automatically rendered by the platform, building your own custom UIs or, in fact, balancing the use of both. With the new Lightning Component technology from Salesforce, deciding what technology to use for a given custom UI requires some consideration.
Salesforce has historically provided Visualforce as the recommended technology for building custom UIs. To some developers, it resembles Java Server Pages or .NET Active Server Pages. They also provide a great number of ways to extend their standard UIs with custom UIs built with Visualforce, allowing you to make the choice...