Salesforce DX commands

In this section, we will cover some basic commands to authorize Salesforce, set a default Dev Hub username, and scaffold a Salesforce DX application.

auth commands

The first thing you will need to do is to connect the CLI to Salesforce. The CLI provides commands to connect using web-based OAuth flow, JWT token-based flow, and an sfdx auth URL.

Use JWT-based flow for CI. If you are using Salesforce DX with Travis, Circle, or Jenkins, then it's always recommended to use JWT-based flow.

To connect the Dev Hub to the CLI, run the following command:

sfdx force:auth:web:login -r https://login.Salesforce.com

For Sandbox Orgs, use test.Salesforce.com instead.

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