Creating the project

When working with PCFs, the Power Platform CLI is responsible for creating your component’s project structure. It also manages the project’s packaging as a Power Platform solution that can be deployed to your environments.

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

• Managing plug-in projects that 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://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/developer/cli/introduction.

Getting ready

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