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.

The Lightning brand has been part of the Salesforce ecosystem since October 2014, when the San Francisco-based company announced the Salesforce1 Lightning Framework, a toolkit for developers to ...

“Our goal was to remove barriers,” said Salesforce’s Moxley. “With Lightning Voice, with this breakthrough, we’re connecting clients to what matters most to them—their customers.