Salesforce Developer Tutorial - How and Why to use Scratch Orgs for Development

In this episode we go over what what Scratch Orgs are, why you would use them, how to set them up using VSCode and Illuminated Cloud 2 and much more. Scratch orgs are an excellent tool to start moving your org away from your production org being the source of truth and start have source control be your source control. This helps enforce the idea that your whole org shouldn't be viewed and iterated on as one giant entity, but rather smaller individual apps that make up the greater org. It may seem like a huge feat to make the transition, but it's a feat worth pursuing.
General Scratch Org Info: help.salesforce.com/s/article...
Scratch Org Settings List: developer.salesforce.com/docs...
Scratch Org Features List: developer.salesforce.com/docs...
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Table of Contents:
0:00 - Intro
0:21 - What we're gonna cover in this video
1:11 - Free Certs! Vote on New Videos! Memberships!
3:39 - Why would you want to use Scratch Orgs?
15:54 - How to Enable the DevHub in your Org
17:42 - Setting up a new project in VSCode to use with your Scratch Org
20:22 - Setting up the Scratch Org Definition file
21:48 - Where to find the list of Scratch Org Features available
25:57 - Where to find the list of Scratch Org Settings available
29:28 - Creating our Scratch Org via VSCode
31:30 - Opening our Scratch Org via VSCode
32:38 - How to push metadata to your Scratch Org from VSCode
38:08 - How to manually change your Default Scratch Org from VSCode
40:47 - How to Delete your Scratch Orgs from VSCode
42:31 - Setting up a new connection in IntelliJ for a Scratch Org
45:02 - Creating our Scratch Org in IntelliJ
50:30 - Scratch Org Limits and how to Manage them via the Salesforce UI
53:46 - Setting up a Project for our Scratch Org in IntelliJ
56:14 - Opening our Scratch Org from IntelliJ
1:00:08 - Outro
DISCLAIMER: The views and ideas expressed on this UA-cam channel and blog are based on past development experiences and may not always work for your particular scenarios. The advice in these videos may also become outdated as technology advances. They should be used as examples for educational purposes only. Using any shown solutions in your own org is not advisable since they are example scenarios.
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