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Cursor IDE for Salesforce: The Complete Setup Guide
Sep 10, 2025
Blog Post:
https://www.infallibletechie.com/2025/09/cursor-ide-for-salesforce-the-complete-setup-guide.html
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Hello everyone. In this video, we are
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going to see how to make use of cursor
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IDE for Salesforce development. If you
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are a Salesforce developer, admin,
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architect or a DevOps engineer and then
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if you wanted to retrieve
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uh push it to your u um backup
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repository and then if you have any
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other use cases and then if you want uh
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if you and then if you wanted to make
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use of cursor IDE then you can make use
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of this video as a reference.
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The first step is we have to download
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and install cursor IDE. So go to this
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website. You should be able to download
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uh the cursor ID.
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Uh please check the video description.
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In the video description, I have shared
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my blog post. From the blog post, you
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should be able to get all these uh
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referenced URLs.
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Next, we have to install the extensions
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in the cursor ID. It is very similar to
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VS Code extensions. uh uh in
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installation. So go to your cursor
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application, select view and then select
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extensions,
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search for Salesforce extension pack and
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then you should be able to install it.
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Once it is installed, go to
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developer.salesforce.com/tools/
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SFDX CLA. From here you should be able
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to get the Salesforce CLI uh uh
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application and then install it.
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Once uh uh ID is installed extension on
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the ID is also installed and uh after
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Salesforce CLA extension we have to
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create Salesforce project. This is also
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very similar to the VS code uh commands.
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If you are uh uh FVS code uh uh user
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then uh these uh things would be very
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easy. Uh so we have to use control
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shiftp or command shiftp if you're using
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Mac OS and then we have to select create
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project with manifest. If you wanted to
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just create a project without a manifest
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then you can use sfdx create uh project.
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The manifest will give us a sample
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package.xml XML which will be very
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helpful to retrieve uh uh the metadata
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from our Salesforce or
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you can make use of this uh how to
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create Salesforce project in VS code as
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a reference because all the commands uh
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and all the setup and everything uh on
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the VS code is very uh is very close to
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um cursor ID setup. So you can
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definitely make use of this link as your
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reference.
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So here
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we you have to select uh command shiftp.
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I am a Mac user. So
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and then you should be able to search
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for all Salesforce DX commands. You can
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create an or you can authorize an or you
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can create an Apex class. You can create
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uh uh lightning web component. All these
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things can be done from cursor ID.
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One more big advantage I have seen with
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cursor ID is you can make use of this a
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assistant. So here I'm going to ask
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please check this class for best
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practices. So this is a sample apex
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class which I have created. Uh it is a
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custom rest API class which is exposed
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as a rest API so that my external
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applications can you may make use of it.
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So if I ask for best practices,
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it will read the class, it will
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understand how I have developed and then
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it will help us uh uh with
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recommendations
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for all my Salesforce development work.
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I make use of it. I get uh good
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recommendations and uh best practices so
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that my code will run for a very long
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time without any issues.
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I strongly recommend you to set up
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cursor ID for Salesforce development and
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u make use of the AE assistant tool.
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As I shared earlier, my blog post is
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available in the video description. You
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can make use of it as your reference.
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I hope it was helpful.
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Thank you for watching.
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