List of Salesforce Tools For Developer
Goal of these tools is to give developers a more modern way of creating applications on top of the Salesforce platform.
1.Developer Edition Environment
This online environment lets you instantly start developing and testing your software-as-a-service application.
- Designed for small businesses that want to get started with a CRM system quickly. It includes intuitive walkthroughs and a setup assistant to get started, an easy-to-use UI, and administration tools to customize your deployment as you grow.
2. Scratch Orgs
The scratch org is a source-driven and disposable deployment of Salesforce code and metadata. A scratch org is fully configurable, allowing developers to emulate different Salesforce editions with different features and preferences. And you can share the scratch org configuration file with other team members, so you all have the same basic org in which to do your development.
Scratch orgs drive developer productivity and collaboration during the development process, and facilitate automated testing and continuous integration. You can use the CLI or IDE to open your scratch org in a browser without logging in. You might spin up a new scratch org when you want to:
- Start a new project.
- Start a new feature branch.
- Test a new feature.
- Start automated testing.
- Perform development tasks directly in an org.
- Start from “scratch” with a fresh new org.
3. Salesforce Extensions for VS Code
The Salesforce extensions for Visual Studio Code are a set of enhancements for custom development on the Salesforce Platform. Together, these extensions enable you and your team to use the VS Code IDE with Salesforce to deliver continuously.
4. Salesforce CLI
The Salesforce CLI is a powerful command line interface that simplifies development and build automation when working with your Salesforce organization.
5. Mobile Tools
Powerful tools and resources to enable you to preview your Lightning web components for mobile. Preview locally or within the Salesforce mobile app virtual device builds.
6. Developer Console
The Developer Console is accessible from within your Salesforce organization, and provides a collection of tools you can use to create, edit, debug and test applications.
debug, and test applications in your Salesforce org.
- It takes only a couple of clicks to open the Developer Console from Salesforce Classic or Lightning Experience. The Developer Console is an integrated development environment with a collection of tools you can use to create, debug, and test applications in your Salesforce org.
Developer Console Functionality
- The Developer Console can help with many of your development tasks.
Developer Console Query Editor
- You can use the Query Editor in the Developer Console to execute a SOQL query or SOSL search on the data in your organization. The History pane displays your last 10 queries for quick reuse. Results are displayed in a Query Results grid, in which you can open, create, update, and delete records. For SOSL search results with multiple objects, each object is displayed on a separate tab.
The Developer Console User Interface
- The Developer Console includes a collection of useful tools for coding, debugging, and testing applications.
7. Ant Migration Tool
The Ant Migration Tool is a Java/Ant-based command-line utility for moving metadata between a local directory and a Salesforce organization.
8. Salesforce Lightning Inspector
This powerful Chrome extension lets you inspect and optimize Lightning Components by giving you access to a wealth of data about your running applications and components.
9. Workbench
This powerful, web-based suite of tools designed for administrators and developers to interact with Salesforce organizations via the Salesforce APIs. Workbench includes robust support for the Force.com Partner, Bulk, Rest, Streaming, Metadata, and Apex APIs that allows users to describe, query, manipulate, and migrate both data and metadata in Salesforce.com organizations directly in their web browser with a simple and intuitive user interface.
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