Sfdx introduction

Salesforce DX Introduction

1. Salesforce DX a [email protected] @ adbelhakim https:// www.linkedin.com /in/ abdelhakimmouttaqui / Abdelhakim Mouttaqui Technical Architect & Force.com Developer Casablanca – Oct 11 th 2017

2. Goals and Audience Discovering a brand new Salesforce Developer eXperience Taking a simple use case’s walk-through steps Laying foundations for future more detailed DX events Needed an intermediate sfdc experience Events  Platform Basics talk

3. [What] sfdx A new way to manage and develop apps across their entire lifecycle Source-driven development of code Team collaboration with governance Externalizing metadata Letting developers use their modern tools The “source of truth” shifts into a VCS New experiences, including the use of Heroku Flow to drive both CI and CD

4. [Why] sfdx Solving developer sandbox quick/light rollback for canceled task Lightening developer sandbox setting up time loss Simulating and testing apps on orgs with different features (compared with the “classic” dev sandbox) Creating use-specific orgs for demo purposes

5. [Why] sfdx CI scenarios : automated testing (e.g. with Jenkins) and optional further deploy to another sandbox

6. [How] sfdx

7. Tools - prerequisites Node JS Git Heroku /SFDX CLI

8. Tools: CLI – Commands Overview sfdx force --help sfdx force:project:create -- projectname milanosfdug sfdx force:mdapi:retrieve -- unpackaged ./ milanodug / package.xml -- retrievetargetdir ./ milanodug /retrieved

9. Use case - Big Picture

10. sfdx force:mdapi:retrieve sfdx force:mdapi:convert Retrieving and Converting >> Setting up a package.xml file >> Setting up a target folders for retrieved metadata >> Taking action by CLI

11. sfdx force:auth:web:login sfdx force:org:create sfdx force:org:create sfdx force:config:list sfdx force:alias:set Authorizing, creating a scratch org, config and alias settings >> Authorizing our devhub (or another org, e.g. for using force:mdapi  scratch orgs not manageable ) >> Check configs >> Creating a new scratch org ( + defaultusername and scratch- def.json ) >> Showing scratch orgs on Env Hub >> Re-Check configs >> Aliases : list, set and how to use them

12. sfdx force:source:status sfdx force:source:push Checking status and first push >> Checking source status >> Perfoming the first push

13. sfdx force:data:bulk:upsert sfdx force:data:soql:query sfdx force:schema:sobject:describe Developing, Loading, Querying >> Editing metadata locally >> Loading records from csv >> Querying data

14. sfdx force:source:pull --force sfdx force:source:push –-force git commit git push Push/Pull, conflicts, remote pushing >> Pushing local edited files >> Pulling remote changes >> Solving conflict >> Pushing to a remote repository >> Destroying the scratch org

15. Demo