salesforce-component-standards

SKILL.md

Salesforce Component Quality Standards

Apply these checks to every LWC, Aura component, and Visualforce page you write or review.

Section 1 — LWC Quality Standards

1.1 Data Access Pattern Selection

Choose the right data access pattern before writing JavaScript controller code:

Use case
Pattern
Why

Read a single record reactively (follows navigation)
@wire(getRecord, { recordId, fields })
Lightning Data Service — cached, reactive

Standard CRUD form for a single object
<lightning-record-form> or <lightning-record-edit-form>
Built-in FLS, CRUD, and accessibility

Complex server query or filtered list
@wire(apexMethodName, { param }) on a cacheable=true method
Allows caching; wire re-fires on param change

User-triggered action, DML, or non-cacheable server call
Imperative apexMethodName(params).then(...).catch(...)
Required for DML — wired methods cannot be @AuraEnabled without cacheable=true

Cross-component communication (no shared parent)
Lightning Message Service (LMS)
Decoupled, works across DOM boundaries

Multi-object graph relationships
GraphQL @wire(gql, { query, variables })
Single round-trip for complex related data