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Salesforce DX is a modern tool for building Salesforce applications. It allows Salesforce developers to carry out source-driven development. In a source-driven development workflow, the source code can be kept in a version control system such as GitHub, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Subversion (SVN), or any other equivalent source control system. A developer can deploy the source code into a Salesforce instance, referred to as scratch Orgs, using commands provided by the Salesforce DX CLI. The CLI also provides commands to push the source code from your machine (referred to as local) to a Salesforce instance, create a Lightning Component Bundle, test Lightning Components, and many others. Source-driven development ...

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