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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

Chapter 4: Project Overview and the Component Life Cycle

In the previous chapter, you learned how to initialize PCF projects. This chapter aims to provide the underlying structure of the PCF project and explain the importance of the files included in the project. We will do a deep dive into how metadata is presented and take a look at the core code file that is provided as a starting point by the framework. At the end of this chapter, you will be introduced to the component life cycle and how events interact with each other.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:

  • Types of project provided by Power Apps CLI
  • Understanding how components are made up
  • An overview of the files and the folder structure in a PCF project
  • Understanding the ControlManifest file
  • Exploring the structure of index.ts
  • Understanding the life cycle of the component