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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 in canvas apps

Similar to the previous section, this section assumes that you have deployed and configured code components using canvas apps as described in Chapter 8, Introduction to the Dataverse Project, and Chapter 9, Configuring Code Components in Power Apps. Once you have configured the code component on an individual screen, we will focus on understanding the process of debugging a code component that's added to a canvas. In this example, we are going to work with the character counter code component, assuming it is already added on a screen in a canvas app. There are two ways you can debug a code component from a canvas app: using DevTools and using AutoResponder. We will be looking into each of these options.

Debugging using DevTools

Let's start DevTools by pressing Ctrl + Shift + I to perform debugging. First, you need to make sure you open the canvas app for editing in the maker portal. Once the app is open for editing, navigate to the screen that...