Why setup the Local Development Server? After you use it a couple times I promise you won’t ever ask this question again, lol. It makes your LWC development SO MUCH FASTER!!! I mean it might actually be Lightning Fast! (I’m sorry, but I’m not letting that joke go…). If you’ve ever developed LWC’s directly in…
Why Use Static Code Analysis Tools? There are two major reasons to use static code analysis tools: 1) They make you a better developer. These industry standard rules exist for a reason. To make code clean, modular and easy for all the developers that come after you to deal with. So be a kewl guy…
Why would you want to setup Auto Code Formatting? Aside from the fact that it’s both magical and amazing, it also enables you to easily do a couple things: 1) If you get onboarded to a project with a horrific looking codebase with nightmarish formatting, you can fix that by running a single command on…
Why Would You Want to Communicate Between Component Types? There are a bunch of reasons it’s beneficial to communicate between component types but the most common ones that I have found are the following: 1) You’re building a new component and realize you need functionality that only Aura Components support, but it’s a very small…
What is Custom Metadata and why would we create a configurable Lightning Web Component? Custom Metadata is a wonderful thing. You set it up much like a custom object, but you use it for an entirely different purpose. Typically you use custom metadata much like you would utilize a config file in many other development…