Scratch Org

So it’s time to learn about Scratch Orgs. I know about them, but don’t know HOW to do them.

I have all my VSCode environment set up and I have a Dev Hub. My goal is to get the Dreamhouse App installed on a pre-release org (a few days after the release to Sandboxes).

I google getting started with scratch orgs and find this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJWZD2qO0Cw. Nope, this does not start at the beginning. It jumps straight to having a config file pre-set. Where do I get a config file? where do I save the config file? when do I set up my git repo?

Next Stop Trailhead https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/projects/quick-start-salesforce-dx/set-up-your-salesforce-dx-environment

OK, this is getting somewhere.

First step log into the dev hub

sfdx force:auth:web:login -d -a DevHub

I’m following the trailhead because I want the Dreamhouse app, so that starts with a Git Clone so doesn’t help me set up a good process for setting up git in the first place. But it looks like Git Clone does make the folder git enabled, which is good.

Next step is that I connected my local Git folder to my Bitbucket via SourceTree, and checked out a branch to work on. (See my VS Code for Non Developers page to get help on how to do this part). So now we can start working. (Until I have everything set up, and backed up to the cloud, I don’t like to start).

I need to make one change to my project-scratch-def.json file to make it a preview release developer org.

"release": "Preview",

I run the command to create the Scratch Org, with the alias of JMDemo

sfdx force:org:create -s -f config/project-scratch-def.json -a JMDemo