<aside> đź’ˇ Important: Here, only the most interesting parts to me are reproduced, but the complete reference and authoring is to Bogdan and Pierre.
Lightning Experience with Lightning Speed (Are We There Yet?)
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So what happens after a user types a URL into the browser navigation bar and presses “Enter”? Let’s take a look.
While breaking apart the overall flow, it’s important to note that Lightning Experience is an SPA (single-page web application). It uses client-side rendering of Aura and LWC components, as opposed to Salesforce Classic, which uses server-side rendering and Visualforce components.
Keeping that in mind, here’s what the client browser does when a user initiates navigation:
And here are some more details on the steps required to produce Lightning Experience page as presented in the diagram above:
After the initial navigation, one of the following is most likely to happen.
As noted in the diagram above, the user can likely do one of the following: