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Lightning Strikes at Salesforce with DIY Development Platform

Seligman explained that the core of the Lightning effort actually began as a Salesforce open source project known as Aura.

“The core Lightning technology is something we have been working on for three or four years. We needed a really modern component-based framework,” Seligman said. “So we built it ourselves and open sourced it.”

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