Extending the Salesforce CLI with a Custom Plugin

As more services move to the cloud and DevOps methodologies continue to evolve, more and more developers are getting comfortable with working in the terminal. Whereas traditional CLI commands like grep and cat are well-known tools for achieving small goals, more complicated tasks require more robust tooling.

In this post, we’ll create a custom plugin for sfdx. Our plugin will generate fixture data for a Lightning app that runs on a Salesforce org. This data will be used to populate our project with random names and addresses in order for us to test the usability of our project.

Before getting started, install the following:

This will open a new browser window that will ask for your Salesforce credentials. Once you’ve gone through that flow, sfdx will inform you when the authentication is complete.

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