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Extending Microsoft Power Apps with Power Apps Component Framework

By : Danish Naglekar
Book Image

Extending Microsoft Power Apps with Power Apps Component Framework

By: Danish Naglekar

Overview of this book

Power Apps Component Framework is used by professional developers to extend the capabilities of model-driven and canvas apps. Extending Microsoft Power Apps with Power Apps Component Framework will take you through the basic as well as advanced topics using practical examples. The book starts by helping you understand the fundamentals of the framework, its lifecycle, and the tools that you'll use to build code components using best practices and file management guidelines. You'll then learn how to extend Power Apps step by step and apply the principles and concepts covered in the book to build code components for field type attributes. The book covers different ways of debugging code components and guides you through the process of building code components for datasets. You'll also explore the functions and methods provided by the framework to enhance your controls using powerful sets of libraries and extensions. As you advance, you'll get to grips with creating and managing authentication profiles, discover different ways of deploying code components, and configure code components in model-driven and canvas apps. Finally, you'll learn some of the important features of the framework and learn modern web development practices. By the end of this Power Apps book, you'll be able to build, debug, enrich, and deploy code components confidently.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: Fundamentals of the Power Apps Component Framework
6
Section 2: Building and Managing Code Components
12
Section 3: Enhancing Code Components and Your Development Experience

Recap of what was built

In Chapter 5, Code, Test, and Repeat, we built a simple dataset code component that only displayed the data. But we did not implement any additional features that would enable users to interact with the data. In this chapter, we will expand the same code component and add some advanced features that will provide interaction capabilities to the code component.

When building the basic dataset code component in Chapter 5, Code Test and Repeat, we learned the importance of identifying whether the dataset was still loading and waiting for it to complete loading before rendering the user interface. This is one of the features provided by the framework that lets you detect the status of dataset loading and helps you execute your logic at the correct time. If you do not check the dataset loading status, you might execute the logic to render the user interface multiple times.

Now, we will be enhancing the existing dataset code component by adding the following...