Previously, application of the best practices of conventional software Development was a tricky affair. Many people admit that even after setting up processes and figuring out the accomplishment of tasks such as merging, branching and version control, developing on the Salesforce platform has remained a gruesome task. The coming of Salesforce DX promises a new dawn for Salesforce developing community.

One-stop center for essential features

What Salesforce DX offers its Developers is a great solution to multiple problems previously encountered. It comes with standardization of various tools and APIs. What it brings is a new development era on the Salesforce platform.

More to gain with Scratch Orgs

How often do Salesforce developers utilize the best basic practices of software development? It is a rare scenario. It is not a common ordeal to find everyone developing in the same sandbox without a sandbox control.

With the entry of scratch orgs, things just got easier and more interesting. It allows developers to easily and quickly spin up new orgs through JSON configuration and a command. What scratch orgs present is a natural fit for branch workflow? The process is straightforward and delivers better results.

The new CLI comes with commands for managing the scratch org, thereby enabling automation. You will also notice that the new CLI interface adds extra commands through Heroku Toolbelt. This is an essential aspect of the development experience. It blends perfectly with most automated processes including automated build scripts and continuous integration.

Better experience with source control

In the past, supporting concurrent developments where more than one project is involved has been a difficult endeavor. In essence, developers ended up creating different orgs with different configurations at separate times.

What developers have been waiting for all along is something that resembles Salesforce DX. With the great potential that this Developer Experience comes with, developers now have an opportunity to improve how they work on Salesforce platform.

Source driven development

For many years, Salesforce has focused more on GUI-driven development while taking closer considerations of the point-and-click web interface. Finally, Salesforce has come to terms with the fact that developers love and enjoy coding. Although GUI-driven customizations guarantee great results, the benefits become limited when a certain threshold is met. At such a point, it becomes more reasonable to switch directly to a code.

Salesforce DX encourages developers to take advantage of tools such as GitHub in managing their source codes. Going forward, Salesforce Admins and Salesforce Developers will have so much to gain source control through Git.

Why should you be excited?

The various features that Salesforce DX puts together give every developer a reason to believe the future is bright. The possibilities these new improvements bring on Salesforce development are immense. Separating feature development and testing them from scratch orgs just got easier and more fascinating. Going forward, there will be less or no need of setting up and syncing sandboxes. By taking advantage of version control on all metadata and codes, every developer will be a step closer to realizing efficiency in development.

Author Bio

Lucy Jones is a developer based in New York. He has special interest in CRMs. You can check out some of his writings at Flosum.com. You can also visit his personal blog for greater insight.

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