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@salesforce/command
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:stop_sign: deprecation notice
This library is deprecated. You should migrate to https://github.com/salesforcecli/sf-plugins-core.
A migration guide is provided in the sf wiki https://github.com/salesforcecli/cli/wiki/Migrate-Plugins-Built-For-Sfdx
Description
This package contains the base command class for Salesforce CLI, SfdxCommand. Extend this class for convenient access to common Salesforce CLI parameters, a logger, CLI output formatting, scratch orgs, and Dev Hubs. This class extends @oclif/command and is available within a plug-in generated by Salesforce Plug-In Generator.
Usage
Check Your Salesforce CLI Version
Commands that extend SfdxCommand can only be used with Salesforce CLI version 6.8.2 or later. To check your Salesforce CLI version:
$ sfdx version
sfdx-cli/6.42.0-ae478b3cb8 (darwin-x64) node-v8.9.4
Features
To learn more about the features of the Command Library see the Salesforce CLI Plug-In Developer Guide.
Contributing
If you are interested in contributing, please take a look at the CONTRIBUTING guide.
Development
If you are interested in building this package locally, please take a look at the DEVELOPING doc.
Related Docs and Repositories
- @salesforce/command - Contains the base Salesforce CLI command,
SfdxCommand. - @oclif/command - Contains the base oclif
Command, whichSfdxCommandextends. - @salesforce/plugin-generator - The generator plug-in for building plug-ins for Salesforce CLI.
Issues
Please report any issues here: https://github.com/forcedotcom/cli/issues
FAQs
Salesforce CLI base command class
The npm package @salesforce/command receives a total of 63,607 weekly downloads. As such, @salesforce/command popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @salesforce/command demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 54 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 13 May 2023
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