Pros and Cons of Using Salesforce DX as Enterprise Platform

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Salesforce is now the most trusted and user-friendly cloud computing platform offering Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) with a collection of custom development tools. You can spot the best tool as Salesforce DX Salesforce App Cloud, which is a unique product allowing the developers to create and deploy user-friendly Salesforce apps in a much more direct and efficient manner. To harness the maximum potential of this tool, it is crucial for someone to understand both the benefits and disadvantage of Salesforce DX, which we will discuss in this article.

In the latest model of Salesforce DX, Production Org is the primary source of truth for the code. It also covers configuration and customization. Production Org covers further releases and updates. The major advantage of this approach is that the team gets familiarized with the lifecycle and technical aspects, but this may also be a bit tough to manage the inter-term coordination, and the version control is also not seamless.

Adding to it, this development model may not support ongoing integration or agile developmental methodology. This further makes it difficult to automate the testing process or roll-back the releases. It is also merely impossible to create separate versions.

This is one area where Salesforce DX will come in handy.

Salesforce DX approach

Salesforce DX helps the users in different ways like:

The enhanced VCS (Version Control System) helps to synchronize better the tracking of changes in terms of features, which allow the developers to have better control and grip over the auditing, collaboration, and disaster management.

Salesforce DX possesses the capacity to improve quality and also offers the lesser time to market advantage too with the CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Delivery) benefits.

Another unique benefit to Salesforce DX developers in better visibility and fine clarity in change management of Production Org

As per the Flosum.com blog, Salesforce DX also has a significant edge in terms of its ability to implement agile development and release management schedules.

In fact, like any other CRM too, DX also has its own advantages and disadvantages, which we will further discuss.

Pros of Salesforce DX

It can help improve team development.

Better collaboration

The scope of automated testing.

Enabling continuous integration

More agile and efficient release cycles.

Easily create Org and then transfer all metadata and application sources from GitHub directly into Org

Developers can set up a local work-space for development.

Open, customizable technology

Use any tool you are used to modifying does; including, but limited to CLI, Atom, Vim, Sublime, etc.

Cons of Salesforce DX

As Salesforce DX is comparatively new, some user-friendly features are yet to come up on to this platform, which the users may encounter as bugs.

The learning curve for team members is bigger to get familiarized with the platform and get accustomed to the development cycle.

Salesforce DX may sometimes make it difficult to troubleshoot with the provided data.

It demands heavy line instructions and commands to troubleshoot, which makes it difficult for system admins.

However, you can take assistant of Salesforce DX consultants to automate the processes and improve its scalability.