Command Line Support

Command line (CLI) tools allow you to automate certain tasks. Powershell is quite popular on Windows systems and will soon offer mostly equivalent functionality on Linux-like systems.

Use can use powershell commands to upload Web Resources, plugins or perform common tasks associated with Dynamics development.

You may find over time that while powershell offers some plugins for Dyanmics that help in some areas, it is not robust in others. You may choose to write some scripts that use the Web API to control Dynamics.

If you do, you should consider writing those scripts using nodejs, a common javascript environment fully supported by Microsoft on Azure as well as on windows and linux. nodejs uses javascript, or any language transpiled to javascript, for its language and could help you write simple web api-based scripts faster as well as stay within an ecosystem that you would use for general front-end, javascript based development targeting Dynamics.

You may also find that using the nodejs environment gives you better options than powershell for batching and parallelizing certain functions.

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