Salesforce’s decision to open-source Lightning Web Components is undoubtedly driven by a desire to boost the popularity of the framework, but the company today insisted it’s also trying to ...

Salesforce on Wednesday announced the decision to open source Lightning Web Components, a JavaScript framework, at TrailheaDX, the company's fourth annual developer conference.

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For Salesforce, the upside to open sourcing Lightning Web Components is that it could gain more developers. Salesforce may also be able to leverage the open source community for new features and apps.