Aura Helper Features

Extension to work with Salesforce, Apex and Lightning. It contains numerous tools to increase productivity and facilitate code creation.

From code autocomplete tools, to an advanced graphical interface that allows you to perform more powerful tasks, through formatting Apex code or offering views for file structure. Aura Helper is undoubtedly one of the necessary applications for any Salaesforce developer.

Code Completion Tools

Aura Helper offers the user multiple code autocomplete tools to facilitate coding, which can be activated or disabled from the extension settings.

Some of the functions are:

• Ability to list all objects, custom and standard available in the application. It works in the Apex classes
• List the fields of the objects, including information such as label, picklist values, length ... It works in both Apex classes and Lightning components
• Show all application classes, including system classes (System, Database...). It works in the Apex classes
• Obtain and list the variables and methods of all classes, including system classes. It works in the Apex classes
• Ability to create class and method comments quickly through a user-defined template
• Ability to list the above information concatenated (class.method (). Method ()...). It works in both Apex classes and Lightning components
• List all the standard and custom lightning components of any namespace (lightning, aura...)
• List attributes not included in calls to lightnig components, both custom and standard of any namespace
• Suggest the possible values ​​of the attributes of the elements of the lightning components, such as variants, sizes...
• Ability to display the functions of the Apex, Javascript or Helper files in the files of any Lightning Bundle
• Support to facilitate the construction of queries showing the fields of the object indicated in the "from" clause
• More than 100 code snippets to facilitate the creation of lightning components. For more details see the Snippets section on Aura Helper's Help

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Advance Graphic User Interface

Another of the main features that Aura Helper implements, is the support of an advanced graphical interface to implement more powerful features that facilitate the maintenance of metadata or serve as support for other tasks.

Through the graphical interface, Aura Helper provides a tool to create package.xml files quickly, both of the local metadata, and of all the metadata of the organization.

Another feature implemented through the interface is the ability to manage metadata files as if it were Salesforce. Add similar validations and behavior, taking into account the context and possibilities offered by VSCode.

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Apex Code Formatter

Due to the lack of code formatters exclusively for Apex and that official salesforce extensions do not implement it, Aura Helper has a tool to format Apex code. We just have to press Alt + Shift + F

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Version Control and Metadata

To facilitate working with version control applications such as Git, Aura Helper contains several tools to manage metadata files which simplify version control in Salesforce.

Some of the tools are:

• Possibility of compressing the XML files so that they occupy fewer lines and reorganize the content to facilitate its reading by the user
• Graphical interface to manage files more simply and without leaving VSCode
• Possibility of updating the files that are created at runtime during the deployments depending on the content, such as profiles or permission sets, including all system information and without the need to update the other elements
• Ability to check what elements exist in the environment and not locally, to be able to eliminate them and match the environment with the local content
• If we want to perform metadata deployments or retrieves, we can use the Package Generator tools and the SFDX Deploy and Retrieve options

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Documentation

To facilitate the tedious documentation task, Aura Helper has tools to automatically generate or facilitate the work of documenting code

The main tools are:

• Ability to generate comments of classes and Apex methods following the structure of a user-defined template, so that it can be adapted the style of comments to that established in the project.
• Support to automatically generate all or almost all documentation of the Lightning components (.auradoc). Using the Javascript comment scheme, and a user-defined template, almost all of the documentation can be generated with a single click

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Help

Aura Helper includes a navigable help to learn more about all the features contained in the extension and thus make better use and be more productive Command -> AuraHelper: Help

Help are available in English and Spanish.

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