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 ...

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