Prerequisites

Nodejs

Check for node js set up in your machine, to check type node -v  in your terminal which will display your current node version if not download  node js from here https://nodejs.org/en/

Kill-port

Install kill-port by using this command npm i -g kill-port.

Salesforce Extension Pack

Make sure you install salesforce extension pack in you vscode if you don’t have salesforce extension pack get it from here
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=salesforce.salesforcedx-vscode

Salesforce CLI

Make sure you have set up salesforce CLI, if not you can take the help from here
https://developer.salesforce.com/tools/sfdxcli

Features

Support developers in the development workflow

Best User Interface Create projects and connect with Salesforce Instances Need not to shift another tool for package.xml

Manage your connected salesforce organization

Set default SFDX Organization Generate password for scratch Salesforce Organization View all connected scratch Organization and non-scratch Salesforce Organization

Addition-to SFDX tools

Handy for building a package.xml Pick metadata components from the UI

Supports DX source & metadata Format

Retrieve Metadata in DX Source format Retrieve Metadata in mdapi format.

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