Lightning is described as the future of the Salesforce. Lightning uses JavaScript on client side and apex on the sever side and this is one of the prominent reason why Lightning has faster execution rate. If you haven’t enabled lightning in your Salesforce org yet, here’s a blog that can help you do so Enable Lightning Experience on Salesforce.
You can create new apps, controller, components from the Developer Console and preview them through Developer Console. We will discuss how to read records from Salesforce and we will soon come up with another blog that will talk on saving records to Salesforce in Lightning.
To read records from Salesforce, we will first create an Apex class that will fetch all respective records. The function in the class has to be annotated with ‘@AuraEnabled’ this enables the Lightning components to communicate with Salesforce. Refer the below image regarding the apex class. Refer the below image regarding the apex class.
Apex controller
Through developer console, create a new Lightning component that will use the controller, you just created, and will consist of markup to display the records. Refer the below image for Lightning component
Lightning Component
Now, we have the two pieces ready for and we need the third piece that will join them together and this is done via JavaScript controller. This calls the apex controller and binds the Lightning component with the results returned from the Apex Controller. Refer the below image for the controller
Lightning Component Controller for reading records
You can apply style/CSS to make your component look more appealing. Once, you are done just refer the Lightning component in your lightning app the same way you use VisualForce component in your VisualForce page. You can then preview the App and see the output. Refer the image below for Lightning app and the desired outcome.
Lightning App to display records
Output Displaying All records retrieved
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