# Salesforce source-deploy-retrieve

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## Introduction

A JavaScript toolkit for working with Salesforce metadata. Built to support the Salesforce CLI deploy and retrieve experience in the [Salesforce VS Code Extensions](https://github.com/forcedotcom/salesforcedx-vscode), CLI plugins, and other tools working with metadata.

## Features

- Resolve Salesforce metadata files into JavaScript objects
- Parse and generate [manifest files](https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/package-xml/package-xml-adventure)
- Convert source files between [SFDX File Formats](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.sfdx_dev.meta/sfdx_dev/sfdx_dev_source_file_format.htm)
- Generate metadata packages with the option to automatically create a zip file
- Deploy and retrieve metadata with an org
- An [index](./src/registry/metadataRegistry.json) to reference available metadata types.
- Utilize promises with `async/await` syntax

## Issues

Please report all issues to the [issues only repository](https://github.com/forcedotcom/cli/issues).

## Usage

Install the package:

```
npm install @salesforce/source-deploy-retrieve
```

See [HANDBOOK.md](./HANDBOOK.md) for usage and examples.

See [API Docs](https://forcedotcom.github.io/source-deploy-retrieve)

## Contributing

See [CONTRIBUTING.md](./CONTRIBUTING.md) for details on how to contribute to the library.

See [developing.md](./contributing/developing.md) for details on building and testing the library locally.

## Publishing

SDR publishes when changes are merged into `main`. The version is bumped per the rules of the release orb and [standard-version](https://github.com/conventional-changelog/standard-version).