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Dynamics CRM JavaScript Development - Best Practices?

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Posted on by CRMTreky 760

Hello,

This is more of a Q&A post. If there is a specific section dedicated to Q&A's please let me know and I will be happy to remove this post.


I'm just curious to see what seems to bet the "Best Practice" with how you manage your JavaScript development for version control? Do you use GitHub or another service? Also, can you setup CRM Forms to grab JavaScript automatically from a GitHub source or do you still have to keep the JavaScript in a CRM Web Resource?

I know enough about JavaScript to be dangerous in CRM but by no means am I an expert or have a ton of experience. Any advice/suggestions you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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    a33ik 84,331 Most Valuable Professional on at

    Jared,

    Actually you asked great question.

    First thing - development and deployment of development pieces (like scripts, pages, plugins, custom workflow activities) - I use VS + Dynamics CRM Development extensions -https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/0f9ab063-acec-4c55-bd6c-5eb7c6cffec4 Other developers can suggest to use CRM Developer Tookit (which I used to use before I tried Development Extensions mentioned earlier). When you are the only developer - there is no need to check that your code can break code developed by other developer so you can deploy everything from VS and test results in CRM.

    Second - Sourcecontrol. I use TFS Online. Free for one developer, reasonable price for a group. Try it out, it's cool ;)

    Now second part - when you work with group of consultants, developers and architectors it is good to have in sourcecontrol not only changes done to code but changes done to entities, relationships, view, e.t.c. - metadata of CRM. We used this tool - https://xrmciframework.codeplex.com/ Another one great thing is mentioned extension contains possibility to use AutoBuilds/AutoDeploys and this feature rules because you can get notification that build is broken if one of team members checked in changes that break it.

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    CRMTreky 760 on at

    Thank you Andrii for your detailed & insightful response.

    I will definitely take a look at Sourcecontrol and the other resources that you mentioned. I greatly appreciate your response!

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