You're reading from Extending Microsoft Power Apps with Power Apps Component Framework A complete guide to creating, deploying, and improving your code components

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800564916

Length 318 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Enterprise Resource Planning

Author (1):

Danish Naglekar

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Fundamentals of the Power Apps Component Framework

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to the Power Apps Component Framework FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Power Apps CLI

4. Chapter 3: Community Tools and Resources

5. Chapter 4: Project Overview and the Component Life Cycle

6. Section 2: Building and Managing Code Components

7. Chapter 5: Code, Test, and Repeat

8. Chapter 6: Debugging Code Components

9. Chapter 7: Authentication Profiles

10. Chapter 8: Introduction to the Dataverse Project

11. Chapter 9: Configuring Code Components in Power Apps

12. Section 3: Enhancing Code Components and Your Development Experience

13. Chapter 10: Diving Deep into the Features Provided by PCF

14. Chapter 11: Creating Advanced Dataset Code Components

15. Chapter 12: Enriching Your Dev Experience

16. Answers to Knowledge Tests

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

What is Power Apps CLI?

Power Apps CLI is a command-line interface that provides developers with a set of commands to work with PCF, Dataverse solutions, plugins, and much more. It is the first step toward a comprehensive application lifecycle management (ALM) story where the developers can create, build, and publish their projects quickly and effectively.

A set of commands provided by Power Apps CLI helps you to create a PCF project that will enable you to develop code components. It also provides you with a command to create a Dataverse solution project that will help you package your code components, which can be deployed to any Dataverse environment. The command related to a plugin project initializes a class library with a plugin base and example plugin classes. It also provides commands to authenticate and manage various Dataverse environments.

There are multiple community-built tools to begin your journey of building code components but beneath all those tools, the core...