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I. HarrisBeginning Salesforce DXhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8114-7_2

2. Environment Setup

Ivan Harris1  
(1)
FROME, UK
 
The only tool that you need in order to develop applications or customizations using Salesforce DX is the Salesforce CLI , a command-line interface for executing Salesforce DX commands. Having said that, to improve productivity, an integrated development environment (IDE) is preferred. There are several IDEs to choose from, including Illuminated Cloud (a plug-in for the IntelliJ IDEA IDE), The Welkin Suite, and others. In this book, we are going to standardize on using Visual Studio Code with the Salesforce Extensions for Visual Studio Code; the extension pack is published by Salesforce, and both the extension ...

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