Extending the Platform

Power Platform includes several tools and services dedicated to building solutions that help improve organizational procedures. The tools we use to create applications and integrations offer a range of standard features in their field while leaving room for extensibility.

When building applications, you need to create interfaces that interact with your end users; in this process, you might need to repeat a set of controls such as headers, menus, loaders, etc. This task can be tedious as it slows development when a new change is needed.

This chapter will teach us how to speed up the application-building process using components. These elements allow the creation of small building blocks that focus on a specific task by encapsulating a set of controls that can be reused across your application. You will also learn how to create custom connectors to integrate with data sources using tools your developers already use, such as Postman. Before diving in, we...