PRprettychill·Sep 16, 2026
aura was open source for a long time. https://github.com/forcedotcom/aura
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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5 sourcesSalesforce is brilliant at marketing, I would take this PR announcement with a grain of salt.
Lightning was already based on open source software - their Aura Framework. As of March 2019 they decided that they were going to continue to maintain it, but were ceasing to make it open source.
You can read the notice here:
https://github.com/forcedotcom/aura
In Open-sourcing the Lightning Web Components frameworkInnovate42 | Front-end Engineer | London, UK | Onsite, Full-Time | £32-40k + 1-2% equity | innovate42.com
Our mission is to help companies consistently deliver outstanding customer service. We achieve that by delivering a unified platform for product, order and subscription management in Salesforce. We currently focus on media companies - The Economist is a paying customer. The founders are ex-GoCardless (YC S11) and Zuora.
We utilise the Lightning Aura framework, Salesforce’s most recent open source component framework designed to deliver dynamic multi-platform web applications. Lightning uses JavaScript on the client side and looks very similar to React. Check out the Aura framework https://github.com/forcedotcom/aura or give it a try yourself https://trailhead.salesforce.com/modules/lex_dev_lc_basics.
We’re looking at hiring our first
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front-end engineer to start scaling our platform. You’ll work with Daniel, our Chief Architect & cofounder. Why you should join:
- You want to shape the product of a small bootstrapped startup
- You like enterprise software
- You like customer feedback
Position offer £32-40k + 1-2% equity. Flexible working hours and great equipment. Interested in chatting? Email hello@innovate42.com.
Don't forget Aura/Lightning for one of the weirdest ugh-inducing front end / back end development rides you can find: https://github.com/forcedotcom/aura
In Salesforce buys Demandware for $2.8BA co-dependent Salesforce UI framework named "Aura" can be found here.
https://github.com/forcedotcom/aura/blob/master/LICENSE
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