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

Chapter 3: Community Tools and Resources

In the last chapter, we saw what Power Apps CLI is and how we can initialize a project for code components. Let’s now take a look at what the Power Platform community has built to improve the development process: a rich set of tools and a collection of community-built code components. These tools overcome the drawbacks of Power Apps CLI by either providing a graphical user interface (GUI) or by allowing developers to execute commands quickly. These tools also provide you with different templates and features that minimize the time taken to build code components.

We will begin this journey by getting to know PCF Builder, followed by PCF Generator, and finally we will look at PCF Gallery. By the end of this chapter, you will be familiar with these tools and library, which will help you to build code components more quickly.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics: