[Dreamforce 24] Dynamic LWC: With great power comes great responsibility

Dynamic LWC is a long awaited feature. No need to hardcode LWC names, create them dynamically on the fly. It's great but can have a severe impact on performance if used incorrectly. Let’s deep dive!

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1. Fabien Taillon, Partner & CTO at Texeï fabien@texei.com Dynamic Lightning Web Components With great power comes great responsibility
2. Fabien Taillon Partner & CTO at Texeï Salesforce MVP - Hall of Fame Paris Developer Group leader French Touch Dreamin team https://www.texei.com/blog
3. Introduction
4. What is a Dynamic Component A way to dynamically instantiate a component that may not be known before runtime @FabienTaillon - https://www.texei.com/blog
5. Why was This Not Possible Before? @FabienTaillon - https://www.texei.com/blog
6. Why was This Not Possible Before? PERFORMANCE @FabienTaillon - https://www.texei.com/blog
7. We have purposely made the decision of not allowing dynamic component creation yet (the equivalent of $A.createComponent) on the Salesforce platform to make sure we had a clean, statically analyzable and predictable behavior on which to build upon in LWC. … In LWC in the platform we don't allow you to shoot yourself in the foot creating small tiny components, and once we do, we will give you a water pistol first :) Diego Ferreiro Val - Ex Principal Architect LWC https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/244847/not-able-to-render-dynamic-lightning-web-component
8. Valid use cases Most use cases can be achieved with existing lwc:if/lwc:elseif, but: • N°1 use case would be for AppExchanges allowing dynamic components defined through Metadata for instance (think App Builder like) • Can be used to defer big components load if not on the main displayed page • Displayed after a button click • Displayed in another tab • … @FabienTaillon - https://www.texei.com/blog
9. How it works now Just add the capability to the parent component to instantiate dynamic components: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <LightningComponentBundle xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata"> <apiVersion>59.0</apiVersion> <capabilities> <capability>lightning__dynamicComponent</capability> </capabilities> </LightningComponentBundle> @FabienTaillon - https://www.texei.com/blog
10. How It Works Now And then it’s very easy: • Import component in JS • import MyComponent from 'c/myComponent'; • await import('c/myComponent'); • Define a Dynamic component in template with lwc:component and lwc:is • <lwc:component lwc:is={componentConstructor}></lwc:component> • Assign in JS the component you want to render • this.componentConstructor = MyComponent; @FabienTaillon - https://www.texei.com/blog
11. Pass Attributes Down Easily pass attributes via markup <template> <lwc:component lwc:is={componentConstructor} text="I love dynamic components!"></lwc:component> </template> Depending on dynamic components, you may not know which attributes are need. Properties can be passed down via JavaScript object and lwc:spread directive: JS childProps = { city: "San Francisco", state: "CA" }; Markup <template> <lwc:component lwc:is={componentConstructor} lwc:spread={childProps}></lwc:component> </template> @FabienTaillon - https://www.texei.com/blog
12. A Deeper Look
13. Before Dynamic Components Declarative use of components in the template markup All components are known at save time and can be statically analyzed @FabienTaillon - https://www.texei.com/blog
14. Before Dynamic Components Only one round trip to get the whole component and sub-components @FabienTaillon - https://www.texei.com/blog c-my-component c-my-component + c-small-component + c-heavy-component
15. With Dynamic Components Dynamic components will be created by JS and may not be known at that time Depends on how dynamic components are created - more on this later @FabienTaillon - https://www.texei.com/blog
16. With Dynamic Components If not done correctly, one additional round trip per dynamic component @FabienTaillon - https://www.texei.com/blog c-my-component c-my-component + c-small-component c-heavy-component c-heavy-component
17. Dynamic Components To do it correctly, you need to understand how it works and different options available @FabienTaillon - https://www.texei.com/blog
18. Static Import - Statically Analyzable • Import needed components • Switch the rendered component by changing the lwc:is variable • Almost the same as using components in markup and lwc:if • Everything is downloaded with a single server round trip @FabienTaillon - https://www.texei.com/blog
19. Dynamic Import - Statically Analyzable • Same as previous, but loading is done on demand ◦ connectedCallback ◦ Function linked to any action (user click…) • Not part of the initial load so additional server round trip @FabienTaillon - https://www.texei.com/blog
20. Dynamic Import - Not Statically Analyzable • Same as previous BUT component is not statically analyzable • No way for Salesforce to improve loading, caching etc • As much as possible, don’t use this one @FabienTaillon - https://www.texei.com/blog
21. A Good Use Case
22. Loading Heavy Component Async • One heavy component • Not visible during first page load • Would slow down the whole page if part of the markup @FabienTaillon - https://www.texei.com/blog
23. Loading Heavy Component Async @FabienTaillon - https://www.texei.com/blog
24. Recap
25. Recap • Use it when you understand how it works • Not for very small components, server round trip will be slower than initial load • Use it for big components that may slow down initial load and that are not immediately visible (like unclicked tab) @FabienTaillon - https://www.texei.com/blog
26. Resources Documentation https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/lwc/guide/js- dynamic-components.html Blog post https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/2023/10/dynamic-co mponents-for-lightning-web-components-is-now-ga RFC https://github.com/jmsjtu/lwc-rfcs/blob/jtu/dynamic-compon ent-creation/text/0119-dynamic-component-creation.md StackExchange answer about performance https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/244847/not- able-to-render-dynamic-lightning-web-component @FabienTaillon - https://www.texei.com/blog
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30. Q&A