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Developer workflow for building a Salesforce application

This section covers a simple developer workflow, which we will be adapting to build Apex and Lightning Components using the Salesforce DX CLI, Visual Studio Code, and the Visual Studio Code extension pack for the Salesforce plugin.

The following is a rough diagram of one of the developer workflows that we will be following for all of the components and code in subsequent chapters:

Let's follow the preceding workflow step by step using Salesforce DX commands.

Create a Salesforce DX project in the directory you would like the project folder to be in. The following command shows a sample ...

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