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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

PCF Generator

PCF Generator is another CLI package sourced from the npm library that helps you create boilerplate code using a scaffolding tool called Yeoman. The package not only creates necessary files and folders, but also initializes the Dataverse solution while correctly configuring references in the manifest file. It follows the recommended programming guidelines for creating folder structures and files. The source code for PCF Generator is available on GitHub and links to the source code are provided in the Further reading section of this chapter.

Installing PCF Generator

Perform the following steps to install PCF Generator:

  1. Before you begin using PCF Generator, you need to install Yeoman by running the following command:

    npm install -g yo

  2. You also need to install the PCF Generator package from npm with the following command:

    npm install -g generator-pcf

For the installation of Yeoman and PCF Generator, we have used the -g attribute. Hence, these packages...