Why use Salesforce Lightning?

Lightning is awesome! Before going into the details. Let me ask you, have you seen the new UI? If not, check it now. You will be truly awestruck with the look and feel. Lightning is not enabled yet? Please see this Enable Salesforce lightning post.

                                           

• Have you noticed the header and the sidebar is gone, it was too boring anyways!
• We have the new sidebar which displays all the tabs. Don't see your custom tabs? Here's how to see it.
• Did you see how the new record detail page is arranged. Beautiful, isn't it?
• Now Sales reps can manage all the related details from the same screen. 
• Account insight is a luxury feature for the Sales reps to have.
• Forget about running report every time you need data classification. You can create chart from the list view with few clicks.
• Interactive assistant - Your own Jarvis!

It’s not just a great new user experience. It’s also packed with new features to help you sell faster, work more productively, and make better decisions.

Explore the new features here.

But what about my previous code. Here what you need to know.