Make your Lightning apps shine. Learn to combine smart Apex techniques, caching strategies, and UX patterns to deliver responsive, high-performing experiences your users will love.
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Design Lightning Apps That Are Fast and Responsive
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, VP Engineering, Youreka
Role: Administrator, Architect, Developer
Product: Agentforce 360 Platform
Session Level: Advanced
Session Type: Theater
Session Summary: This session explored strategies to enhance the performance of Salesforce Lightning Apps and Lightning Web Components, emphasizing both actual and perceived performance improvements. Key insights included optimizing Apex code, efficient data queries, and leveraging tools like Salesforce's query optimization tools and platform cache to reduce server-side processing bottlenecks. The session also highlighted user experience enhancements such as progressive UI loading, lazy rendering, and micro-interactions to improve perceived performance and adoption rates. Practical examples, including pagination, infinite scroll, and reusable UI patterns like skeleton loaders and optimistic UI, were provided to demonstrate how developers can create faster and more responsive applications while maintaining a seamless user experience.
Key Takeaways:
• Efficient Apex practices, like avoiding queries inside loops and using caching strategies such as platform cache, can significantly reduce server-side processing time and improve application performance.
• Perceived performance enhancements, like skeleton loaders, micro-interactions, and error handling, ensure users feel more confident and engaged while interacting with applications, even during loading delays.
• Breaking down monolithic components into smaller, isolated components allows applications to load progressively, improves fault isolation, and enhances overall user experience by focusing on key data first.
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