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Well if you need an IDE you ought to be using Welkin.
March 06, 2020

Well if you need an IDE you ought to be using Welkin.

Joseph Ucuzoglu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with The Welkin Suite

We use The Welkin Suite as out exclusive IDE for development of Salesforce coding projects.
  • Great coding envirionment
  • Allows for easy and direct deployment
  • It's great for searching all of the code in a project to determine where a variable may be used.
  • It would be nice if IDE feature releases were timed to coincide with Salesforce releases (i.e. make Lightning Web Components available on the day they become available in Salesforce instances).
  • The IDE can be a bit buggy especially when you have several windows of the IDE open to different Salesforce instances at the same time on one machine.
  • Sometimes, when you click to retrieve your data too soon, before the program has a chance to ask you to connect to the instance, it can cause the IDE to freeze.
  • I have probably saved about three hours, on larger projects.
  • It has definitely saved me the overhead of having to work with other IDEs that have heavier setup requirements.
I have tried using the Developer Console, Microsoft's Visual Studio Code with the Salesforce plugins and also Mavens Mate along with Sublime. The latter is deprecated. The rest are either options that are not as fully featured as The Welkin Suite or their setup time is much greater.
In general, when you need support there is someone there to give you an answer. I think there could be an improvement in this area, but it's hard to provide a substantial amount of support for a product that is charging roughly $15 a month. Do I feel I get more than $15 worth of support value when I need to request it? Yes.

Do you think The Welkin Suite delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with The Welkin Suite's feature set?

Yes

Did The Welkin Suite live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of The Welkin Suite go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy The Welkin Suite again?

Yes

The Welkin Suite is a great IDE compared to the alternatives out there. If you need to code in Salesforce and you want a mostly seamless environment, then The Welkin Suite is the best option available, in my opinion. I have also been using it for Apex Tests and find that the tools are really good for measuring code coverage and highlighting those areas that are uncovered.