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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 3: Community Tools and Resources

In the last chapter, we saw what Power Apps CLI is and how we can initialize a project for code components. Let’s now take a look at what the Power Platform community has built to improve the development process: a rich set of tools and a collection of community-built code components. These tools overcome the drawbacks of Power Apps CLI by either providing a graphical user interface (GUI) or by allowing developers to execute commands quickly. These tools also provide you with different templates and features that minimize the time taken to build code components.

We will begin this journey by getting to know PCF Builder, followed by PCF Generator, and finally we will look at PCF Gallery. By the end of this chapter, you will be familiar with these tools and library, which will help you to build code components more quickly.

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

  • An overview of PCF Builder
  • Using...