Chapter 5: Extending the Platform
The Power Platform is composed of several tools and services dedicated to building solutions that help improve organizational procedures. The tools we use to create applications and integrations offer a range of standard features in their field while also leaving room for extensibility.
When building applications, you need to create interfaces that interact with your end users, and in this process, you might need to repeat a set of controls such as headers, menus, loaders, and the like. This task can be tedious as it slows down development when a new change is needed.
In this chapter, we will learn how to speed up the application building process by using components. These elements allow the creation of small building blocks that focus on a specific task by encapsulating a set of controls to be reused across your application.
Before we dive into this chapter, we will also cover a key topic regarding user interface guidelines. In this chapter...