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If you and your team struggle with using SDF for project deployments and release management, I've just published a post on a development workflow using NPM, git, and SDF that should ease your pain and suffering :smile:
<https://medium.com/tolaeon/using-npm-git-and-the-netsuite-sdf-cli-for-your-dev-workflow-91793c56bfbd>

It's also very good to see that you are going on the same path that NetSuite wants to officially support

You'll get some of this natively supported with the release of the SuiteCloud CLI for Node.js which actually will be available in <http://npmjs.com|npmjs.com>

In 20.1, we are working on enabling Unit Tests on project creation and also initializing the project as an npm project so it's easy to add external dev dependencies

If you'd like to share your thoughts on how this would ideally work or see some early prototypes, please contact <@UEU3GRP5M> or myself

<@UAA1TMMTR> <@UEU3GRP5M> Nice. I would be very interested on getting my hands on the tooling. The ultimate purpose of this whole direction for me, is to make deployment pipelines that include test automation as frictionless as possible.

yep, we have similar ideas :slightly_smiling_face:

<@UAA1TMMTR> Can you elaborate at all when you say, "You'll get some of this natively supported with the release of the SuiteCloud CLI for Node.js"?

What specifically am I doing that will be similar?

• New project structure available in `createproject` with `src` and possibility to point to `dist` (or other folders). I believe the new CLI will enable you to build different pipelines for different environments through the CLI hooks
• Choosing which objects to deploy instead of the full project (in progress)
• Triggering SuietCloud frunctions through Node.js

Yes, <@UEU3GRP5M> gave me a demo this morning. I can see there's lots of overlap, and I think the hooks provide a lot of the flexibility I'm looking for. You have some great work there. Onward!

That's great to hear! Thanks for your time Brendan