Have you explored the benefits of Second Generation Packaging for your apps yet? In this blog post, we’ll cover benefits, advantages, and how to think about choosing between first generation and second generation.
To start, let’s define what a package means. A package is where an app is developed, managed, and distributed with Salesforce. You can think of it as a container filled with metadata: it contains related features, customizations, and schema, and is used to distribute your app to different customer Salesforce orgs.
Salesforce now has two ways to package an app: First Generation Packaging (1GP) and Second Generation Packaging (2GP). 2GP was built to take advantage of the Salesforce Developer Experience (SFDX). SFDX is our modern development environment that offers many benefits to product development teams. A few benefits specific to 2GP are:
Supports team developmentExtensive command line interface (CLI) command setScriptable to automate routine tasks and actionsSeamless integration with the code repository of
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