Dreamforce 2016 Recap

Brett M. Nelson - Friday, October 14, 2016

Last week I spent 4 days in San Francisco for the annual Salesforce.com (lets call it SFDC from this point on) conference called Dreamforce. If you follow SFDC things you've probably heard of it. If you don't follow SFDC things you may have heard of it too.

Presentation

I went to present Introduction to ECMAScript 6 and I think it went pretty well. Hopefully the video will be available shortly so I can share it. Sample code for the presentation is available on GitHub.com/BrettMN.

Salesforce DX

While there I did see them announcement of Salesforce DX a developer tooling system for deploying to a Salesforce org. It looks promising but the pilot program wont even start till next year at the earliest. Some of the highlights for Salesforce DX include:

move the source of "truth" out of the org and into source control
cli built on the Heroku cli so it's plugin based
create "scratch" orgs from a config file
new temporary Scratch orgs
perform local diff and only push items that changed to the org (not sure it this would apply to static resources I didn't think to ask)
the features that use Heroku will require a Heroku account and will probably cost money
remove the strict project structure requirement

They mentioned being able to create a working config file, to create scratch orgs, by getting the settings from a current org was in the works but did not have a timeline.

Mavensmate

Another developer related thing I saw there that was interesting was the new Mavensmate desktop app and Visual Studio Code plugin. It's currently in beta but some of the features they demonstrated were pretty neat.

run test in the background
support for Lightening
code coverage metrics
new UI for the desktop app

Good Day Sir! Podcast

One night I met up with some of the other listeners of the Good Day Sir! Podcast. They were all great people and I think we should do it again sometime.

On a side note if you are looking to a podcast to listen to I would definitely recommend you checkout the Good Day Sir! Podcast as Jeremy and John are entertaining and insightful on a broad range of topics.