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Extending Microsoft Power Apps with Power Apps Component Framework

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800564916
Length 318 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Danish Naglekar Danish Naglekar
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

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

Using React and Fluent UI to build code components

React is an open source JavaScript library that helps you build user interface libraries and components. Fluent UI, on the other hand, is a cross-platform design system created by Microsoft that provides you with a framework to create user interfaces that include accessibility, internationalization, and performance.

Most of the code components on PCF Gallery are created using React because it provides a rich user interface. In this section, we will be building a simple user persona with an adjustable size that can be controlled by a slider. This code component will use both React and Fluent UI.

First, we need to initialize a PCF project. In order to do this, we will use PCF Builder for VS Code. Here are the steps to create the project:

  1. Start your command palette using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + P.
  2. Search for PCF Builder, and select Initialize Component (Simple).
  3. Enter PowerMeUp as a namespace.
  4. Enter...
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