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  • Overview
  • Getting Started
    • Pre-Requisites
    • Install sfp
    • Configure Your Project
    • Build & Install an Artifact
    • Congratulations!
    • Docker Images
      • sfp-pro
  • CONCEPTS
    • Overview
    • SF CLI vs. SFP
    • Domains
    • Packages
    • Supported package types
      • Unlocked Packages
      • Org-Dependent Unlocked Packages
      • Source Packages
      • Diff Package
      • Data Packages
    • Artifacts
    • Package vs Artifacts
    • Identifying types of a package
    • Dependency management
    • Transitive Dependency Resolution
    • Destructive Changes
  • configuring a project
    • Project structure
    • Setup Salesforce Org
    • Creating a package
    • Defining a domain
    • Release Config
  • BUILDING ARTIFACTS
    • Overview
    • Determining whether an artifact need to be built
    • Building a domain
    • Building an artifact for package individually
    • Limiting artifacts to be built
    • Controlling aspects of the build command
      • Ignoring packages from being built
      • Building a collection of packages together
      • Selective ignoring of components from being built
      • Use of multiple config file in build command
    • Configuring installation behaviour of a package
      • Always deploy a package
      • Skip Install on Certain Orgs
      • Optimized Installation
      • Pre/Post Deployment Script
      • Reconciling Profiles
      • PermissionSet Assignment
      • Updating Picklist
      • Entitlement Deployment Helper
      • Field History & Feed Tracking
      • Aliasfy Packages
        • Aliasfy Packages - Merge Mode
      • State management for Flows
  • Installing an artifact
    • Overview
    • Controlling Aspects of Installation
    • Applying attributes of an artifact
    • BuiltIn Deployment Helpers
      • PermissionSet Group Awaiter
  • publishing and fetching artifacts
    • Publish Artifact
    • Fetching Artifacts
  • Releasing artifacts
    • Overview
    • Release Definitions
    • Generating a release definition
    • Generating a changelog
  • Validating a change
    • Overview
    • Different types of validation
    • Limiting Validation by Domain
    • Controlling validation attributes of a package
      • Skip Testing
      • Skip Coverage Validation
      • Test Synchronously
  • Analysing a Project
    • Overview
    • Duplicate Check
  • Environment Management
    • Pools
      • Scratch Org Pools
        • Defining a pool
        • Setting up your Salesforce Org for Scratch Org Pools
        • Pool Operations
          • Preparing pools
            • Handling dependencies
          • List Scratch Orgs in a pool
          • Fetch a scratch org
          • Delete Pools
      • Sandbox Pools
        • Sandbox Pool Initialization
        • Fetch a Sandbox from Pool
        • Monitor Sandbox Pools
    • Review Environments
      • Commands
        • Fetch a Review Environment
        • Check Review Environment Status
        • Extend a Review Environment
        • Transition Review Environment Status
        • Unassign a Review Environment
      • Considerations
    • Sandbox
      • Create Sandbox
      • Delete Sandbox
      • List Sandbox
      • Login to Sandbox
      • Update Sandbox
  • Development
    • Development Environment
    • Pull Changes from your org
    • Push Changes to your org
    • Dependency Management
      • Expand Dependencies
      • Shrink Dependencies
      • Explain Dependencies
  • Running sfp as a server
    • Introduction
    • sfp-pro-server: Architecture Overview (Alpha)
      • Task Processing System
      • Authentication & Security Architecture
      • Authentication System: Deep Dive
      • Database Architecture
      • Network Architecture and Integration System
      • Integration Architecture: Building Extensions
    • Installing SFP Server
      • Connecting GitHub as a CI/CD provider
    • Initializing SFP server
  • API Reference
    • Health
    • Authentication
    • Token
    • Salesforce
    • Team
    • Users
    • Tasks
    • Key Value
    • Repository
    • WebHooks
  • Metrics
    • Available Metrics
    • Custom Metrics
    • Configuring Collectors
      • Datadog
      • Splunk
      • New Relic
      • StatsD
  • Helpers
    • Managing Shared Resources
  • Command Guide
    • Core
      • Build
      • Quickbuild
      • Publish
      • Install
      • Release
    • Advanced
      • Validate
      • Artifacts
      • Changelog
      • Impact
      • Pool
      • Metrics
      • Repo
    • Utilities
      • Apex Tests
      • Flow
      • Dependency
      • Profile
  • FAQs
    • Common Errors
      • Org Shapes
      • Troubleshooting Unlocked Packages Build Failure Due to Code Coverage
    • Common Questions
      • Email Templates Deployment: Classic vs Lightning
      • Dealing with Long Build Times in Salesforce
      • Standard ValueSets and unlocked packages
      • Common Issues encountered with aliasfied packages
      • API Version
      • Understanding alwaysDeploy and skipIfAlreadyInstalled in Deployment Pipelines
    • sfp versioning and upgrade Process
  • References
  • Legal
    • Terms of Service for sfp
    • Terms of Service for 'sfp-pro' Software
  • LLMs.txt
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  1. CONCEPTS

SF CLI vs. SFP

Last updated 1 year ago

Salesforce CLI

The Salesforce CLI is a command-line interface that simplifies development and build automation when working with your Salesforce org. There are numerous of commands that the sf cli provides natively that is beyond the scope of this site and can be found on the official Salesforce Documentation Site.

From a build, test, and deployment perspective, the following diagram depicts the bare minimum commands necessary to get up and running in setting up your sf project, retrieving and deploying code to the target environments.

SFP

The diagram below depicts the basic flow of the development and test process, building artifacts, and deploying to target environments.

Once you have mastered the basic workflow, you can progress to publishing artifacts to a NPM Repository that will store immutable, versions of the metadata and code used to drive the release of your packages across Salesforce Environments.

References

The list below is a curated list of core sf cli and Salesforce DX developer guides for your reference.

  • SF CLI

  • sfp

sfp is based on the for building a command line interface (CLI) in . Instead of being a typical Salesforce CLI plugin, sfp is standalone and leverages the same core libraries and APIs as the . sfp releases are independently managed and as core npm libraries are stable, we will update them as needed to ensure no breaking changes are introduced.

The Open CLI Framework
Node.js
@salesforce/cli
Salesforce CLI Setup Guide
Salesforce CLI Release Notes
Salesforce CLI Status Page
Salesforce DX Developer Guide
Developing sf Plugins
@salesforce/cli NPM Repository
@flxblio/sfp NPM Repository
GitHub Repository
sf cli deployments
sfp Develop, Test, and Release Workflow