Technical requirements
When embarking on the journey of writing Salesforce Apex, the choice of development tools and environment is critical to productivity and success. Apex, Salesforce’s proprietary programming language, is designed to execute on Lightning Platform and requires a robust set of tools to manage its life cycle, from development to deployment.
At the core of the Apex development toolkit is the Salesforce integrated development environment (IDE). The most prominent and widely used IDE is Visual Studio Code (VS Code) with the Salesforce Extension Pack. This pack, officially endorsed by Salesforce, equips developers with features such as syntax highlighting, auto-completion, integrated testing, and debugging capabilities. It also provides direct deployment to Salesforce orgs and version control integration, which are indispensable for maintaining code quality and collaboration. Developers can leverage VS Code’s powerful source code editor and customization...