Before you set up Salesforce Dev Tools for VS Code, make sure that you have these essentials.
Salesforce CLI
Visual Studio Code v1.0.0 or later
Features
Salesforce doesn't provide right click menu to show deploy/retrieve for scratch org created from git. This plugin can help you do this.
Open any file, and do your chanes and open command palette (press Ctrl+Shift+P on Windows or Linux, or Cmd+Shift+P on macOS) select DT: Deploy current file for Deploy and DT: Retrieve current file for Retrive from org.
Key bindings:
Deploy current file: press Ctrl+Shift+D on Windows or Linux, or Cmd+Shift+D on macOS
Retrieve current file: press Ctrl+Shift+R on Windows or Linux, or Cmd+Shift+R on macOS
Open any file and right click on editor/ sidebar explorer, it will display option to retrieve/ deploy current file.
Org workspace color: We can be confuled, if we have multiple orgs connected in vs code workspace. we can add different colors for diffrent org workspaces to easy identify the which org it is.
slds, xml and js snippets are added.
Right click on html markup to open lwc component library.
JSON Formatter & Validator
Retrieve Metadata form org
Open Metadata in org from vs code. Supported metadata types: Standard and Custom Objects,ApexClass,ApexTrigger,Profile, PermissionSet,StaticResource,Flow,FlexiPage,GlobalValueSet
Now run Test classes and test methods from vs code.
