As per the different pricing options for the Sales Cloud as per https://www.salesforce.com/uk/editions-pricing/sales-cloud/ and https://www.salesforce.com/content/dam/web/en_gb/www/datasheets/uk-sales-cloud-pricing-comparison.pdf, the Sales Cloud Essentials licenses gives one access to a small number of standard objects but without any declarative automation nor without record types, profiles or permission sets.
Does the Sales Cloud Essentials license though support Apex and custom components? For example, can a develop deploy coded solutions to an org that is on the Sales Cloud Essentials org license or is that not feasible?
The documentation says that both Essentials and Pro don't support the Lightning Platform which would seem to suggest that coded solutions or custom objects are both not supported - such as described here - https://developer.salesforce.com/forums/?id=906F0000000BW0nIAG - but I wasn't sure for certain if that's the case or not.