A Salesforce Developer Account is a free environment that gives you the tools to learn, build and test custom applications on one of the world’s most highly scalable and flexible platform. Centred around allowing the learning of skills using hands-on practice with Apex, Visualforce and Lightning Components within Salesforce’s Trailhead learning modules.

  • This account also supports API testing, integrations and automating set-up which is perfect for reverse engineering the platform without having to touch your live environment.
  • It is often used by developers for app creation to be listed on AppExchange or to work towards Salesforce certifications, as it offers a strong and secure sandbox environment in which to test out ideas and develop Salesforce skills.

Salesforce developer Account

In this Salesforce tutorial, we are going to take a look at getting a lifetime free Salesforce Lightning Developer Edition and also we learn how about switching between Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience.

We will have two of Lightning Experience perspectives i.e. End-user perspective and Developer perspective.

  • From the end-user perspective, how he is going to do the transactions in the Salesforce we will have one understanding. Then, whatever the given standard Lightning apps like sales, pre-sales, marketing, post-sales, service.
  • From the developer’s perspective, what are the two types of developments tha take place in Lightning? One is a point and click,  drag and drop.

Salesforce is providing free developer edition where you can develop force.com applications for free. Salesforce provides many editions based on the customer’s needs. Each edition has their features. Following are the paid editions providing by Salesforce.

  1. Contact Manager.
  2. Group.
  3. Professional.
  4. Enterprise and
  5. Unlimited.

In developer edition, we can have access to Apex, Visualforce, the Force.com Integration APIs, Force.com sites, the database services and much more.

Following are licenses available in developer edition.

  1. 2 Salesforce CRM licenses
  2. 2 salesforce mobile licenses
  3. 3 salesforce platform licenses
  4. 5 salesforce partner licenses
  5. 10 salesforce customer portal licenses

Limits of the developer edition

  • 5.0 MB of data storage
  • 20 MB of file storage
  • 5000 API requests per 24 hours period
  • Any number of applications
  • A 500 MB bandwidth and 10 minute service request time limits  ( per rolling 24 hours) for force.com site applications.

Creating Salesforce developer edition account

 We are going to this URL  http://developer.force.com/ and click on “JOIN NOW” button then you will navigate to the registration page.  Provide the information ever first name your last name. So, this is our working email where the Salesforce will send the activation link.

  • Select some Role, Country, postal code, user name. Here, the user name should be in the format of email name. 
  • After filling all the details Click on sign me up.
  • Next, open your email and check your mailbox, you will get an email notification from Salesforce with a link, you have click that link and set your password.  Activate your account by setting the password and Verify account. Combination of minimum of eight characters, minimum volatile minimum one numeric.
Salesforce Lightning Developer Account

Probably a security question in the case, in future, if you forget the password to reset the password it is going to be helpful for you. Now you are in salesforce developer edition. Here you can create your own applications, you can customize the standard application. For more information, you can go to  http://developer.force.com/.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we learned about creating a permanent Salesforce Developer account. So in our next Salesforce tutorial, we will understand what’s Lightning Experience and how to switch in between Lightning Experience to Classic as well as from Salesforce classic to the Lightning Experience.