Everyone who has worked in the Salesforce ecosystem will be accustomed to producing checklists of tasks that need to be run in a certain order, in various environments to move work around. These are often fraught with risk, and are tedious and frustrating.
With a bit of JavaScript, anything that a person can do in the user interface can be done automatically, made even easier to develop thanks to custom SFDX CLI plugins.
This talk will cover a plugin built with SFDX and Puppeteer to automate clicks in the UI, along with other ways to automate manual steps such as loading related records through the Tree API, executing Anonymous Apex or at the very least opening setup pages faster.
Depending on development expertise, it is possible for anyone to reduce, and maybe even completely remove manual steps from your future deployments.