Salesforce DX Developer Guide

How Salesforce Developer Experience (DX) Tooling Changes the Way You Work
Get Started by Using a Sample Repo
Get Started by Creating a New DX Project
Create an Application
Migrate or Import Existing Source
Release Notes
Provide Developers Access to Salesforce DX Tools
Project Setup
Authorization
Metadata Coverage
Scratch Orgs
Sandboxes
Track Changes Between Your Project and Org
Work with Data
Salesforce DX MCP Server and Tools
Development
Build and Release Your App
Unlocked Packages
Continuous Integration
Troubleshoot Salesforce DX
Limitations for Salesforce DX
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Note: This release is in preview. Features described here don’t become generally available until the latest general availability date that Salesforce announces for this release. Before then, and where features are noted as beta, pilot, or developer preview, we can’t guarantee general availability within any particular time frame or at all. Make your purchase decisions only on the basis of generally available products and features.

Create an Application

Follow the basic workflow when you are starting from scratch to create and develop an app that runs on the Lightning Platform.
  1. Set up your project.
  2. Authorize the Developer Hub org for the project.
  3. Configure your local project.
  4. Create a scratch org.
  5. Push the source from your project to the scratch org.
  6. Develop the app.
  7. Pull the source to keep your project and scratch org in sync.
  8. Run tests.
  9. Add, commit, and push changes. Create a pull request.

Deploy your app using one of the following methods:

  • Build and release your app with managed packages
  • Build and release your app using the Metadata API