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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

Debugging using the test harness

Most modern browsers have a variety of built-in debugging capabilities. Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple Safari each have built-in developer tools that allow interactive debugging. You can use any browser you would prefer, but the examples and screenshots in this book are based on Google Chrome.

While the test harness is running in a browser, press Ctrl + Shift + I on your keyboard to launch DevTools. Let's first start with understanding how to use DevTools to inspect the elements that make up a code component.

Inspecting elements in a code component

In DevTools, the first tab, named Elements, shows the elements panel, which provides you with a way to view the HTML that is rendered on the page. You can access your elements on the UI by using the Inspect functionality, which can be accessed in one of the following two ways:

  • Highlight the element using your mouse and right-click an element on your page,...