Rendering a React application in a Lightning Component using Lightning:container

The Lightning:container component allows us to load single-page JavaScript applications from static resources. If you have an application built using React, Angular, Vue.js, or any other framework, and want to load it inside a Salesforce Lightning Component, the quickest way would be to use the Lightning:container component and load the application into a static resource.

To understand how it works, let's create an HTML file with the following content and load it into a static resource named home:

<html>    <head>    </head>    <body>        Test Content    </body></html>

Now, let's create a Lightning Component using the Lightning:container:

<aura:component implements="force:appHostable,flexipage:availableForAllPageTypes,flexipage:availableForRecordHome,force:hasRecordId,forceCommunity:availableForAllPageTypes,force: ...

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