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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

Section 1: Fundamentals of the Power Apps Component Framework

This first section focuses on the basics of the Power Apps component framework. First, we get an introduction to the Power Apps component framework, the advantages of using the framework, and the prerequisites needed to get started. Then, we look into details such as what Power Apps CLI is and its importance when building code components.

After that, we get introduced to some community tools that can help build and manage code components. Some of these tools also help in making the deployment of code components easy.

Then, we gain an understanding of the structure of the projects provided by Power Apps CLI and the makeup of the code components. We also look at the structure of the control manifest and index code files. Lastly, we cover the component life cycle and how each event interacts with itself and the host.

This section comprises the following chapters:

  • Chapter 1, Introduction to the Power Apps...