Creating the project

When working with PCF, the Power Platform CLI is responsible for creating your component’s project structure. It also manages the project’s packaging into a solution to deploy it in your environments.

This command-line tool also performs other tasks, such as the following:

• Managing plug-in projects which harness the event framework of Dataverse
• Handling authentication to deploy solutions to the Power Platform environments directly from the command line
• Packing and unpacking of canvas apps

Please refer to the official documentation to discover these and other functionalities: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/developer/data-platform/powerapps-cli#common-commands

Getting ready

Let’s continue by building the project structure for our PCF component and configure the project’s manifest. This file defines your component by describing its metadata with information such as the name, version...