Salesforce DX Developer Guide

How Salesforce Developer Experience (DX) Tooling Changes the Way You Work
Provide Developers Access to Salesforce DX Tools
Select and Enable a Dev Hub Org
Enable Source Tracking in Sandboxes
Add Salesforce DX Users
Determine Which License to Assign to Dev Hub Users
Add a System Administrator or Standard User to Your Dev Hub Org
Add a Developer User to Your Dev Hub Org
Add a Limited Access User to Your Dev Hub Org
Create and Assign a Permission Set to Developer Users
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.

Add Salesforce DX Users

System administrators can access the Dev Hub org by default. You can enable more users to access the Dev Hub org so that they can create scratch orgs and use other developer-specific features.

Your developer users can use Salesforce DX with the Salesforce, and Salesforce Platform standard user license, or you can assign them the Developer license, or the Salesforce Limited Access - Free license instead.

If your org has Developer licenses, you can add users with the Developer profile and assign them the provided Developer permission set. Alternatively, you can add users with the Standard User or System Administrator profiles. For a standard user, you must create a permission set with the required Dev Hub permissions. We recommend that you avoid adding users as system administrators unless their work requires that level of authority and not just Dev Hub org access.