The Future of Salesforce Lightning

So Monday night was a big night! We had none other than Mike Rosenbaum (@mike945778) who is in charge of the Salesforce platform including Sales, Service and Lightning. We asked him a load of questions that the community had come up with and here are some of his answers. I’ll be putting the full video up shortly:

• Performance; We had a lot of questions around Lightning performance, Mike said that for the forthcoming release all Lightning developers at Salesforce have been working on performance and you will see big improvements!
• Components Roadmap; Mike has committed to releasing the component roadmap so developers are not developing components that Salesforce is as well! (makes sense!)
• Next release feature (Safe Harbor): Declarative component visibility; I’ve been waiting for this! and Mike announced it’s coming out in the next release! This puts page layouts in the dark! Think of being able to declaratively change which components appear on the layout based on the data on the record you are viewing! This is one of my “Lightning Game changer” features that I spoke about at the Sydney user group.
• New Report builder; The next release will see a new Lightning Report Builder! which is much much better and more usable. But also with a focus on general users being able to create reports rather than being siloed in a particular team etc.
• More Wizards / Setup Flows; At the moment there are around 20 of these wizards but Mike is expecting there to be a load more to make it easier to setup things like single sign on, cloud console etc
• Classic is not going way; There is no secret date when the classic UI is going to be switched off. Although he did say that he maybe switching it on for all Salesforce employees in their own Salesforce org 🙂

Mike would love your feedback! Just tweet him at @mike945778 (he even said why his twitter has the crazy number)

We're talking @salesforce Lightning ⚡⚡⚡ with @radnip interviewing @mike945778 at a mega London meetup pic.twitter.com/9LNcr3e0K9

— Louise Lockie (She/Her) (@LouiseLockie) April 3, 2017

https://twitter.com/Salesforce_Tom/status/848952112574758912

All the questions by @radnip sourced from the London @salesforceadmns group for @mike945778. pic.twitter.com/0vQlLdLJrK

— Christie Fidura (@cfidurauk) April 3, 2017

It was Salesforce Developer evangelist John Stevenson’s birthday as well but he didn’t say a word until the very end of the evening!! Now that’s dedication to the job.

Happy 80th birthday Mr S. @jr0cket pic.twitter.com/PTkKhoDgce

— ☁️ Claire Jones ☁️ (@cejhoney) April 3, 2017