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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

Deploying using authentication profiles

After you have successfully created an authentication profile, you can start publishing your code components to a Dataverse environment with all the latest changes. This is possible due to the push command provided by the framework. The push command speeds up the development cycle because it bypasses the code component versioning requirement and does not require that you build your solution project (cdsproj) to import the code component.

We will first look at the approach for deployment using Power Apps CLI and later look at the deployment process using PCF Builder.

Deploying using Power Apps CLI

Power Apps CLI provides us with a command that allows us to deploy our code component to a Dataverse environment. When the command is executed, the tool builds the component project that generates the bundle.js file in the out directory, followed by building a temporary solution that contains the code component, which is then deployed to the...