For Salesforce, the upside to open sourcing Lightning Web Components is that it could gain more developers. Salesforce may also be able to leverage the open source community for new features and apps.

Lightning Web Components is, as the name suggests, a component-based framework that’s designed to simplify application development for regular business employees who lack programming expertise.

Salesforce has released Lightning Web Components, its JavaScript framework for creating web clients, is now open source, freeing developers to use the framework beyond the company’s own ...

CRM specialist Salesforce has open sourced a JavaScript-based Web development framework based on the new breed of standards that have transformed the Web stack in the past five years. Called the ...