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Is there any way to expose Lightning .app publicly ? I enabled Lightning components on my dev org and was thinking to do it via force.com sites but I couldn't find a way. Perhaps there is a way to put the Lightning app inside a visualforce page somehow and then in this way I can share the VF page on a Force.com Site?

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At this time Lightning Apps are only for SF1 Mobile. Edited to add that they're single page apps, so embedding them would not be possible anyway.

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  • Thanks for the reply. I guess I have to make it with visualforce than. Any idea if such a functionality is planned to be released in the future?
    – Munis Quadri
    Commented Jun 11, 2015 at 8:45
  • It's in their long term plan, but I have no idea as to how soon to expect it. Reports and other platform features are already built around lightning technology. Safe Harbor as SF would say.
    – crmprogdev
    Commented Jun 11, 2015 at 12:34
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    You can use Lightning Apps from Visualforce pages via the apex:iframe tag. They don't work for Force.com sites as yet, which I believe is due to the permissions of the Guest user profile.
    – Bob Buzzard
    Commented Aug 18, 2015 at 13:43
  • @BobBuzzard Is it still the case that Lightning Apps/components cannot be used in Force.com sites?
    – Thomas Taylor
    Commented Nov 23, 2015 at 15:17
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    @ThomasTaylor, they can be used in Communities, but the W16 release notes said they couldn't be exposed in public facing Sites.
    – crmprogdev
    Commented Nov 23, 2015 at 15:26
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@everyone as part of spring 17 Lightning components can be added to unauthenticated sites using lightning out. below is the link

https://releasenotes.docs.salesforce.com/en-us/spring17/release-notes/rn_lightning_apps_public.htm

"Add the ltng:allowGuestAccess interface to your Lightning Out dependency app to make it available to users without requiring them to authenticate with Salesforce."

Technical implementation details are mentioned in the above link.

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Just to add detail to the answer as the question did specifically mention a force.com site.

https://releasenotes.docs.salesforce.com/en-us/spring17/release-notes/rn_lightning_apps_public.htm

The org needs to be communities enabled. Based on that, I'm inferring that you can use lighting.out only against a community and not a 'solo' force.com site. It seems force.com sits are being encouraged to sunset IMHO.

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    I created a POC for that and lightning out also works with no community being enabled.
    – Jannis Bott
    Commented Apr 6, 2017 at 6:00
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    Interesting,, Did that work for both unauth and auth'd users?
    – ChiCloud
    Commented Apr 7, 2017 at 15:08
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    I just tested this with unauthenticated users....
    – Jannis Bott
    Commented Apr 10, 2017 at 5:12
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    @JannisBott Would you mind sharing your vf page on how you exposed the page on the force.com site.
    – Swathi
    Commented Jun 14, 2017 at 16:23

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