The Benefits and Salient Features of Using Salesforce DX

For modern-day businesses, it becomes essential to create various business applications to ensure a successful operation. With such online applications, stakeholders at all level can perform various tasks with perfection and ensure optimum returns. When developing business apps becomes a necessity, platforms like Salesforce Dx come handy which aid in robust business application development and also aid in various levels of business administration requirements.

Salesforce Dx features

  • Version control feature

The development professionals and administrators now use Salesforce Dx for different tasks related to developing and maintaining e-com management applications. Salesforce also offers reliable andadvanced version controlling. With these features, the developers can control auditing, collaborating, and disaster management processes easily.

In business administration, all these play a crucial role. Also, version controlling is essential in terms of delineating a proper release plan. With limited risks involved, the Salesforce Dx users can build and release new features as and when needed with the help of version control.

  • Other features

Those who are working on Force.com and Heroku, they will find it much simpler and comfortable to work on Salesforce Dx. You may find it as an advanced version of Force.com and the Heroku Flow. However, compared to this, Salesforce Dx is coming up with many new features and advanced options. It features some Force.com migrations options too. This puts forth a very stable and strong platform for application development and instant integration.

As Flosum.com points out, another innovative environment put forth by Salesforce is Scratch orgs. These may consist of Salesforce code as well as metadata. This approach helps to speed up the app development workflow and make it more effective.

A Few Salesforce Dx benefits

Understanding the significant benefits of Salesforce Dx is essential for the developers to work effectively on this platform.

  • Scratch Orgs  It is effective in developing CI tools.
  • Source of Truth  Another major advantage offered by Salesforce Dx, which can make the CI tool development easier for the developers.
  • Test Runner  Salesforce Dx provides developers the ability to define the test profile.
  • Continuous Integration  It lets seamlessness integration possible. Regular and ongoing integration is made possible with this tool.
  • Source Sync  This feature provides the developers the privilege to sync metadata as well as sources with scratch orgs.

All the above salient features make Salesforce Dx a robust and high-performing development platform from both the developer and administrator point of views. It comes with many advanced tools, features, and easy integration capabilities. When compared to the existing solutions, Salesforce Dx makes collaboration, integration, risk assessment, and disaster recovery and management speedier and more accurate on deploying this advanced platform.

More importantly, Salesforce Dx offers a never-before developer experience off the shelf by enabling the users to bring any tools of your choice. This platform is built around a robust command line interface featuring open APIs, with which one has the flexibility to make applications with whatever tools you like and used to. You may simply code in a basic text editor or make use of the most modern integrated environment or development; Salesforce Dx covers it all. There is no problem at all even if you want to use Selenium or Jenkins.

Sohail Qaisar

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