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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 10: Diving Deep into the Features Provided by PCF

In the previous chapters, we learned about several techniques we can use to create, test, inspect, debug, and configure a code component. At this point, you should be able to create your own code components. However, the Power Apps component framework provides additional features that enable you to build complex code components. In this chapter, we will look at some of them in depth by examining their usage with some examples. By the end of this chapter, you will be aware of most of the capabilities the Power Apps component framework has to offer.

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

  • Understanding the context
  • Exploring the updateView method
  • Understanding the importance of the getOutputs method
  • Inspecting the caching mechanism
  • Working with external devices
  • Exploring the Web API

Let's get started!