Play by Play: Battle of the Salesforce IDEs

In this course, you’ll dive into the almost endless choices of development environments that are offered by Salesforce and the community while exploring the benefits and limitations of each one. You’ll understand the benefits for many of the available IDEs and how to get started using them in your environment. Start Learning Today!

Play by Play is a series in which top technologists work through a problem in real time, unrehearsed, and unscripted. In this course, Play by Play: Battle of the Salesforce IDEs, Robert Watson and Don Robins work their way through a number of the IDEs available for Salesforce Development. They will take you into a real-world development scenario and progress through The Developer Console, the Eclipse Force.com IDE, VSCode with MavensMate, Illuminated Cloud for IntelliJ, while discussing the pros and cons of each. By the end of this course, you’ll understand the benefits for many of the available IDEs and how to get started using them in your environment.

• Course Overview 2mins
• Setting the Stage 7mins
• Developer Console and Built-in Cloud-based Tools 19mins
• Eclipse Force.com IDE and Source Control Integration 46mins
• Third-Party IDE: MavensMate with Visual Studio Code 22mins
• Third-party IDE: IntelliJ with Illuminated Cloud 30mins
• Conclusion 7mins