177: Custom Property Editors with Alicia Teo

In this episode, we have a conversation with Alicia Teo about Custom Property Editors and how you can use them to create powerful user interfaces to configure your web components. Alicia started as an intern at Commerce Cloud while pursuing her MBA and is now a Product Manager for Experience Builder here at Salesforce.

On the Experience Builder team, Alicia makes creating websites quicker and easier for admins. Custom Property Editors enable developers to create components that are even easier to use than Experience Builder, leading to fewer user errors and fewer complaints.

Enjoy!

Show Highlights:

• What custom properties are
• The problem Custom Property Editor is meant to solve
• The new lightning property types and their benefits
• How to override the date time picker with a new more robust one
• What needs to be done to a lightning web component to make it a Custom Property Editor
• The possibility of reusing the code

Links:

• Alicia’s Twitter Account: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alicia-teo/
• Custom Property Editor Docs: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/component-library/documentation/en/lwc/lwc.use_flow_custom_property_editor_lwc_example

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