An overview of what you can do with Salesforce DX and a deep dive demo into sfdx force:data commands You can find the code used in the demo on the link below https://github.com/stvnhg/sf-demos/tree/master/dx-data-plan-demo

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Brussels, BE Developer Group
Salesforce DX - Circle of Success
16 May 2019

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Steven Hugo
Non profit Solution Architect | Product Dev Lead Converse
• Started in 2007
• .Net Developer (6 years)
• Salesforce Developer - custom, aura, mobile sdk (4 years)
• Salesforce Product Development (2 years)

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Salesforce powered solution for
European fundraising solutions
• 360° view on all your donors
• Segment your donors
• Collect donations on your
website
• Process direct debit payments
with ease
Salesforce Project & Release
Management Made Easy
• Manage your projects within
one workspace
• Take advantage of the Rellex
boards
• Track configuration changes
directly on the user story
• Deployments made easy

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Table Of Contents
• What is DX?
• Salesforce CLI
• Sandbox vs Scratch Org
• Continuous Integration Build Street
• Demo
• Second-Generation Packaging (2GP)
• DX Plugins

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What is DX?
• Salesforce CLI to improve & fasten Developer Experience (Git,
Selenium, VS Code, IntelliJ, Sublime, Illuminated Cloud, …)
• Disposable Scratch orgs used for development and testing.
• Source-Driven Development. VCS is source of truth.
• 2GP Second-Generation Managed Packages for ISV’s (Beta) and
Unlocked packages for Enterprise Customers

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Salesforce CLI improves Developer Experience
• sfdx -h or sfdx --help
• sfdx auth
• sfdx config
• sfdx org
• sfdx source
• sfdx mdapi
• ...
https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.e
n-us.214.0.sfdx_cli_reference.meta/sfdx_cli_re
ference/cli_reference.htm

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Sandbox Scratch Org
Critical for UAT, Performance Testing, Licensing, … Awesome for temp deployments, development &
reviewing features
Permanent (No expiration date) Not permanent ( < 30 days)
Contains Production Data Does not contain any data
Slow Generation (< 24h) Fast generation (<1 min)
No source Tracking Source Tracking
MDAPI Source Format DX Source Format
sfdx force:mdapi:deploy
sfdx force:mdapi:retrieve
sfdx force:source:push
sfdx force:source:pull

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Continuous Integration Build Street

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DEMO DX Data Plans

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Second-Generation Packaging
• Create, package and deploy packages in a source-driven
development environment entirely with the Salesforce CLI.
• Managed packages for ISV’s (beta)
• Why Unlocked packages for Enterprise Customers
• repeatable, scriptable & trackable deployments.
• Track changes with full support for versioning.
• Organize your deployments

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DX Plugins
• https://github.com/CodeScience/codescience-dx-plugin
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/sfdx-waw-plugin
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/soqlx-opener
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/sfdx-wsdl2apex-plugin

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Useful Links
• Simple GUI version of Salesforce DX (by lance-shi)
• Salesforce CLI Command Reference
• Salesforce DX Developer Guide
• Unlocked Packages (Generally Available) and Second-Generation Managed
Packages (Beta)
• Why Unlocked Packages?
• Working with Modular Development and Unlocked Packages: Part 2
• Architecting Unlocked Packages in Your Salesforce Org (video on dx
session)

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