Difference between aura Components and Lightning Web Component (LWC)

Vijay Kumar
2 min readNov 4, 2020

Aura components:- Aura component is a open source frame work develop by Salesforce. It is use for develop a single page application by helping of HTML, JavaScript and apex Controller.

Lightning Web Components(LWC):- It is a newest way to create lightning components. It is open source frame work of Salesforce. It is use for a develop single page application. It’s coding skill to similar like React and Angular newest version.

LWC works as user friendly as given below point:-

  • Easy to Learn
  • Better Performance
  • Faster loading sites
  • More Standards, Less Proprietary
  • Better Security, Better Testing and Better Browser Compatibility
  • Easier to Learn for developers

We can describe at following points difference between Aura Component & Lightning Web Component (LWC).

Aura ComponentLightning web component (LWC)

Lightning Components are a user interface (UI) framework that is used to create applications for desktop and mobile technologies.

It is a open source framework that is provided by Salesforce.

It is used for developed a single-page web applications that provide an end-to-end experience on the platform for a variety of functions.

It is also used for develop a single application. It is very light waited, good performance, and It’s syntax is very similar to react js and angular js

We need to customize or create the component bundle to the help of developer console.

We can customize and create the file to the help of visual force studio.

We can add custom apex control direct to the aura component

We need import the custom apex control through JavaScript file.

Heavily reliant on Aura framework for creation and execution, which is limiting. Not built on code that runs natively in browsers.

Natively supported in the browser → application’s performance is faster.

Uses a standardized JavaScript framework.

Uses standard tools like CSS, HTML, and updated JavaScript (ECMAScript 7).

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