Salesforce Dev Hub Setup

Salesforce DX allows developers to create Scratch Orgs, these scratch Orgs are the used to build an application using Source-driven development. As per Source-driven development, Source code is stored in Version Control systems (VCS).

Salesforce Dev Hub Setup

To create Scratch Orgs, enable Dev Hub in our Salesforce organisation, download & Install Salesforce DX CLI and configure Salesforce Dev Hub setup.

By enabling Dev Hub in Salesforce, we can create and manage Scratch Orgs from command line.
We can view Scratch Org information and link namespace Orgs.

Enabling Salesforce Dev Hub

Following the steps given below.

Login to your Production Org (or) business Org. User can start using the trail version of the developer hub at https://developer.salesforce.com/promotions/orgs/dx-signup. The trail edition is valid for 30 days.
Navigate to Develop | Dev Hub or enter Dev Hub in the Quick Find box.

Click on enable, to enable Dev Hub and also enable unlocked packages and second generation managed packages to develop 2GP packages.

Enable packaging to develop and distribute unlocked packages for salesforce customers.
To develop and distribute second-generation manages packages for Salesforce partner.

Download Salesforce CLI

Salesforce Command Line Interface (CLI) is a powerful tool which removes complexity and deliver flexible and configurable Scratch Orgs. To create Scratch Org, Salesforce CLI should be installed in your local system.

Depending upon the Operating system, download Salesforce CLI from below table.

Operating System	Salesforce CLI Installer
mac OS	https://sfdc.co/sfdx_cli_osx
Windows 32-bit	https://sfdc.co/sfdx_cli_win
Windows 64-bit	https://sfdc.co/sfdx_cli_win64
Debian / Ubuntu 64	https://sfdc.co/sfdx_cli_linux
Debian / Ubuntu x86	https://sfdc.co/sfdx_cli_linux_x86

Now Install Salesforce CLI in your local system. To check that installation is successful, open Terminal app in Mac and enter sfdx as shown below.