Custom Tab For Lightning Web Components

The post explains the process of using a Lightning Web Component (LWC) in a custom tab in both the Salesforce mobile app and Lightning Experience. This is possible since Winter '20 release by setting "isExposed" to TRUE in the metadata file and adding "lightning__Tab" to target to enable the LWC in the Custom Lightning Component Tab.

We can use the lightning web component in the custom tab( in lightning experience and salesforce mobile app) with the winter 20 release.

If you have created a lighting web component you know that there is a configuration file that represents the metadata values for the component. To allow the lighting web component to be used in the lightning app builder we need to set “isExposed” to TRUE. Adding “lightning__Tab” to target will allow using lwc in the custom lighting component tab.

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<LightningComponentBundle xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata" fqn="HelloCustomer">
	<apiVersion>47.0</apiVersion>
	<isExposed>true</isExposed>
	<targets>
	<target>lightning__AppPage</target>
	<target>lightning__RecordPage</target>
	<target>lightning__HomePage</target>
	<target>lightning__Tab</target>
	</targets>
	</LightningComponentBundle>