The document discusses modern AI-powered developer tools for building applications in Salesforce, focusing on environments like VS Code and Code Builder, as well as the Salesforce CLI for managing data and metadata. It highlights various features, including the management of orgs, data import/export, and available community plugins, while also referencing deprecated resources and directing readers to current guides. The document concludes with a note of gratitude and an invitation to continue discussions next month.

2. Build Apps with Modern AI
Powered Developer Tools

3. Your Development Environment

4. Your Development Environment

5. VS Code or Code Builder
Your Development Environment
Salesforce extensions
Salesforce CLI

6. Agenda
The Salesforce CLI
Salesforce IDEs + Salesforce Extensions
Code Analysis + Formatting tools

7. The Salesforce CLI

8. The Salesforce CLI
Manages your Salesforce data and metadata
through command lines
Commands for:
Create & manage orgs
Import & export data data
Create & Install packages
Create & execute tests
More ….
Developer productivity and CI/CD
afdx -> sf

9. https://developer.salesforce.com/tools/salesforcecli
The Salesforce CLI

10. Salesforce CLI Plug-In
A plug-in adds commands or features to Salesforce CLI. For example, the
plugin-auth plug-in provides the sfdx auth commands.

11. https://github.com/mshanemc/a
wesome-sfdx-plugins
Popular plugins created by the community

12. Warning
‘’We retired the Salesforce CLI Plug-in Developer
Guide because it refers to npm packages, libraries,
and tools that are deprecated. See the sf Plugin
Developer Guide for current information about
creating a custom Salesforce CLI plugin that
works in both sfdx and sf.’’

13. Salesforce IDEs + Extensions
VS code and Code Builder

14. Salesforce IDEs

16. https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/code-builder/guide/codebuilder-overview.html

17. Salesforce Extensions

18. Salesforce Extensions
Pre-installed with Code Builder
Syntax highlighting
Code completion
Org browser
Test runner and code coverage highlighter
Query editor
Debugger
And more ….

19. Q&A

20. Thank you! See you next month