Extending Microsoft Power Apps with Power Apps Component Framework: A complete guide to creating, deploying, and improving your code components

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In this guide, you will learn how to extend the capabilities of Microsoft Power Apps by building code components using Power Apps Component Framework (PCF). PCF is used by professional developers to extend the capabilities of model-driven and canvas apps. This book will take you through the basic and advanced topics of PCF using practical examples.

Key Features

• Understand how to extend Power Apps’ capabilities
• Enhance your skills with the help of practical code components used throughout the book
• Overcome common challenges, avoid pitfalls, and improve your code.

Book Description

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 and datasets. Moreover, you’ll explore the functions and methods provided by the framework to use libraries and extensions for enhancing your controls. You’ll also learn modern web development practices, such as creating and managing authentication profiles, deploying code components, and configuring them in model-driven and canvas apps.

This guide also covers various ways of debugging code components, using test harness, Fiddler, and implementing caching techniques. By the end of this Power Apps manual, you will be able to build, debug, enrich, and deploy code components with confidence.

What You Will Learn

• Understand the fundamentals of Power Apps Component Framework
• Explore the tools that make it easy to build code components
• Build code components for both a field and a dataset
• Debug your code components using test harness and Fiddler
• Implement caching techniques
• Work with the Dataverse Web API
• Build code components using React and Fluent UI controls
• Discover different deployment strategies

Who This Book Is For

This guide is aimed at developers who want to build their skills beyond the basics of Power Apps and web development. To benefit from this book, a basic knowledge of Power Apps and web development is necessary.

Table of Contents

• Introduction to the Power Apps Component Framework
• Power Apps CLI
• Community Tools
• Project Overview and the Component Life Cycle
• Code, Test & Repeat
• Debugging Code Components
• Authentication Profiles
• Introduction to CDS Project
• Configuring Code Components in Power Apps
• Framework Deep Dive
• Creating Advanced Dataset Code Components
• Enriching Your Dev Experience

Publisher: Packt Publishing; Language: English; Paperback: 318 pages; ISBN-10: 1800564910; ISBN-13: 978-1800564916; Item Weight: 1.21 pounds; Dimensions: 7.5 x 0.72 x 9.25 inches.