Lightning Web Components Specialist
A few post back I was talking about how some Superbadges were more super than others and the differences between modern and older Superbadges. In this post I said that I was avoiding the LWC Web Components Specialist due to its intimidating length. Well I finally knuckled down and competed it
This Superbadges is really part of the Certification system (yes I know they call claim to be but most are not). It forms part of the Certified JavaScript Developer 1 Certification. As such it’s both reasonable to expect it to be quite tough and also pretty hard for Salesforce to dramatically change this badge. So this is a pretty old-school Superbadge. It definitely earns it super title!
At 16,000 points this has to be one of then highest value badges in Trailhead. There are a massive 18 assessed steps to complete. They start off reasonably varied but it soon becomes quite repetitive. You will need to authenticate VS Code with your special DE Org and pull at least one LWC to edit. Quite why this pattern was not repeated is not clear. For the next quite a few steps you have to create a LWC and copy and paste the template HTML, JS and sometimes CSS into your new LWC.
All of the LWC creation is very similar. Read the (out of order) specifications, add the various properly configured components where the HTML comments indicate. Generally this part was pretty simple. The. Update the JS replacing the comments with real code. I found this harder. Not because the JS was hard , it’s not. But because the specifications seemed quite vague in places and the checks demand you do it exactly as they expect. Of course there are many ways to achieve the same results but you have to do it exactly as they want
At the end when you put it all together I was surprised that my LWCs that had passed all the checks failed on an actual page. I was even more surprised that this then passed the final checks: as long as the correct components were on the correct page in the correct place it didn’t matter whether they actually worked!
Maybe I’ll get round to the exam one day