A Useful SFDX Login Script

Once you have headless SFDX auth working in your development environment, you can start to leverage it by building build automation. Here’s a simple script I’m using to bootstrap my SFDX environment. I run it every time I start up a new session:

#!/bin/bash -x
echo “Starting Dev Environment”

if [[ $# -eq 0 ]] ; then
 echo ‘you need to pass in a string name for your scratch org’
 exit 1
fi

echo “authenticating to devhubtrial2”
sfdx force:auth:jwt:grant -i 3MVG9mclR62wycM2eQwLGugMMMWe5zQvP33hzD_0yCIWytEEI73gZsu8wtNti51PfxuTT_p0F6BrRyAeCVQjN -u [mydevhubusername] -f ~/dev/certificates/server.key — setdefaultdevhubusername
echo “creating a new scratch org”
sfdx force:org:create -a $1 -s -f config/project-scratch-def.json -d 2
echo “install testing environment”
sfdx force:lightning:test:install -u $1
echo “pushing project to scratch org”
sfdx force:source:push -u $1
echo “upload test fixture data”
sfdx force:data:tree:import -u $1 -f data/[my fixture objects].json
echo “get web url for manual open”
sfdx force:org:open -r -u

This takes a couple of minutes to run but doesn’t need any attention while it’s going, and at the end, I have a new scratch org fully loaded with my project and fixture data, ready to go.

The scratch orgs that this script creates are set to expire in just 2 days. That’s because, with a script like this, it’s so easy to create them that you end up bumping up against the limit on total orgs!