Slide deck from my talk at the London Salesforce Developers March meetup on using the Salesforce CLI to retrieve and deploy metadata, run tests, retrieve and update data and create metadata.

1. Salesforce CLI
The developer multi-tool

2. About Me
☑ CTO of BrightGen
☑ Salesforce MVP
☑ Certified Technical Architect

3. ☑ Prime Minicomputer - PrimeOS
☑ VAX Minicomputer - VMS
☑ HP 9000 - HP UX (Unix)
☑ IBM RS/6000 - AIX (Unix)

4. Salesforce CLI
☑ sfdx executable
☑ Local installation
☑ Part of SalesforceDX
☑ One tool to rule them all

5. Authorisation
☑ Login once
☑ CLI manages all tokens
☑ Authorise through browser :
sfdx force:auth:web:login
☑ Specify existing with -u
sfdx force:org:open -u keir.bowden@sfdx.deploy

6. Deployment
Structured src and package.xml

7. Deployment
☑ Wait for complete
sfdx force:mdapi:deploy -d src -w 2
☑ Poll
sfdx force:mdapi:deploy -d src
sfdx force:mdapi:deploy:report -i <job>

8. Running Tests
☑ All in your namespace
sfdx force:apex:test:run -l RunLocalTests
☑ Specific Tests
sfdx force:apex:test:run -l
RunSpecifiedTests -t ConfigAccessorTest

9. Retrieving Metadata
Requires package.xml

10. Retrieving
Metadata
☑ Wait for complete
sfdx force:mdapi:retrieve
-k retrieve/package.xml -r .
☑ Poll
sfdx force:mdapi:retrieve
-k retrieve/package.xml -r . -w 0
sfdx force:mdapi:retrieve:report
-i <jobId> -r .

11. Destructive Changes
Empty package.xml
destructiveChanges.xml
sfdx force:mdapi:deploy -d destroy

12. Retrieving
Data
☑ sfdx force:data:soql:query -q <query>

13. Updating Data ☑ sfdx force:data:record:update -s <type> -i
<id> -v "<field>=<value> <field>=<value>"

14. Creating
Metadata
☑ Apex Class:
sfdx force:apex:class:create -n <name>
-d <directory>
☑ Lightning Component
sfdx force:lightning:component:create
-n <name> -d <directory>
☑ Visualforce Page
sfdx force:visualforce:page:create
-n <name> -d <directory>
☑ No -u option
Created on local file system only

15. Scripting

16. Chain
Commands
1. Deploy Codebase
2. Run Tests

17. Processing
Output
☑ Reformat
☑ Report Results
☑ Take action

18. Orchestration
1. Clone git repository
2. Deploy
3. Store commit id

19. More
Information
☑ Home page : sforce.co/2vyFuuY
☑ Setup guide: sforce.co/2FIDlpS
☑ Command reference : sforce.co/2pdPEAe
☑ Release notes : sforce.co/2DWaWH7
☑ Blog series : bobbuzz.me.uk/2GvVaIb

20. Questions?