Enabling the developer hub in your Salesforce organization
Salesforce DX allows you to create scratch Orgs, where developers can enhance the source code of their applications and test them.
Scratch Org creation is possible only once your business organization (if you are a Salesforce Independent Software Vendor (ISV), Salesforce assigns a business organization) or your production application (if you are a Salesforce customer) has the Dev Hub
enabled.
The Dev Hub
allows you to do two critical tasks:
- Manage the scratch Orgs created by your developers. With scratch Orgs, each developer can build an application separately in their own scratch Org without stepping on each other's code.
- If you are an ISV vendor (that is, you build and distribute Salesforce applications on the Salesforce platform), you can register for your application namespace on the
Dev Hub
. A Salesforce managed package application requires a namespace when packaging and theDev Hub
provides a way to register a namespace. - A managed...