Using Jetpack SDK, part 1: WTF is CFX?

I'm starting a new series on using the Jetpack SDK, as I like to call it; you may know it as the Add-on SDK, and I wold not hold that against you ;). I won't be talking about the Add-on Builder, that's another topic that I will save for later. If you are new to the Jetpack SDK, and think you are capable of running it via command line, then I hope that this will be a good starting point for you.

So you may be asking yourself "just wtf is cfx?" at this point. Well, cfx is short for Cuddlefish executer iirc, but the point I want to make is that the name doesn't really matter, it was just a arbitrary name for the tool afaik. However, cfx is the command-line tool provided by the Jetpack SDK that will allow you to build, run, and test add-ons that you develop with it, as well as allow you to access the documentation for the Jetpack SDK, and other packages that you may be using; so the name may not be important, but the tool is. The latest version of the documentation can be accessed here, but you will be able to access the documentation of third party packages (more on what these are to come!) with the cfx command-line tool, so it's usually easier to read the documentation with the cfx tool imo.

The instructions on how to install cfx are here, and the instructions on how to use cfx are here. So I won't bore you with those details, but I suggest you read them over, so that you are ahead of the game for part 2 "how to build a addon".