What must you do to integrate LWC with other Salesforce components?

To effectively integrate Lightning Web Components (LWC) with other Salesforce components, ensuring that they share a common parent or use events is essential. This is because the communication between components in the Salesforce ecosystem often relies on the component hierarchy and the event-driven architecture that Salesforce employs.

When components share a common parent, this allows them to communicate directly through properties and method calls. The parent component can pass data down to child components using properties, and child components can notify the parent of changes or events, enabling a seamless flow of information.

Additionally, when components do not share a common parent, using custom events facilitates communication. Events can be dispatched from child components and listened to by parent components, allowing actions in one component to invoke responses in others, irrespective of their actual placement in the component hierarchy.

This methodology is foundational in maintaining a clean and efficient communication channel between various components, promoting both modular design and reusability across the application. Implementing this approach ensures that components interact appropriately and that the overall design adheres to the best practices laid out for developing applications in the Salesforce ecosystem.