Enabling the developer hub in your Salesforce organization

Salesforce DX allows you to create scratch Orgs, where developers can enhance the source code of their applications and test them.

Scratch Org creation is possible only once your business organization (if you are a Salesforce Independent Software Vendor (ISV), Salesforce assigns a business organization) or your production application (if you are a Salesforce customer) has the Dev Hub enabled.

The Dev Hub allows you to do two critical tasks:

• Manage the scratch Orgs created by your developers. With scratch Orgs, each developer can build an application separately in their own scratch Org without stepping on each other's code.
• If you are an ISV vendor (that is, you build and distribute Salesforce applications on the Salesforce platform), you can register for your application namespace on the Dev Hub. A Salesforce managed package application requires a namespace when packaging and the Dev Hub provides a way to register a namespace.
• A managed...