You're reading from Microsoft Power Apps Cookbook Become a pro Power Apps maker by applying practical use cases to solve ever-evolving business challenges

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800569553

Length 376 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

PowerApps

Concepts

SharePoint Development

Author (1):

Eickhel Mendoza

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Building pixel-perfect solutions with Canvas Power Apps

2. Chapter 2: Building from data with model-driven apps FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Choosing the right data source for your applications

4. Chapter 4: Automating processes with Power Automate

5. Chapter 5: Extending the Platform

6. Chapter 6: Improving User Experience

7. Chapter 7: Power Apps Everywhere

8. Chapter 8: Empowering your applications with no code Artificial Intelligence

9. Chapter 9: Discovering the Power Platform admin center

10. Chapter 10: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

11. Chapter 11: Advanced Techniques with Power Apps Component Framework

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Setting up your environments

Building PCF components requires configuring your local development computer and, in the case of canvas apps, your Power Platform environments as well. These configurations involve the installation of specific tools to aid component lifecycle management.

The Power Apps Command-Line Interface (CLI) is the primary tool to prepare PCF's project structure, and it requires several tools to perform its tasks. This recipe will cover the detailed steps to prepare the Power Apps CLI installation by separating each tool's installation into different sections.

Getting ready

At the time of writing, the required tooling to build PCF projects is supported only on Windows 10.

When choosing a development tool to build these components, you have two options: Visual Studio (version 2017 or later) or Visual Studio Code (VS Code). We do recommend using VS Code as it is a lightweight editor focused on web technologies.

Regarding the Power Platform environment...