Power Apps component framework (PCF) – Beginner guide

Off late, I have been receiving lot of requests to explain the nitty-gritty of Power Apps component framework aka PCF.

While there are tons of great articles and videos on PCF are already available, I decided to provide comprehensive PCF beginner guide along with steps to reuse the pre-built controls.

Topics to be covered in this article:

• What is PCF?
• How we survived Pre-PCF era?
• Pre-requisites
• Understand the file structure of PCF control
• Get familiar with commands
• Build a simple PCF control.
• Run and Debug in Browser
• Packaging PCF control to a Solution
• How to download and use the sample pcf controls
• Add components to Model Driven App

Lets get started and dive in to the details.

What is PCF?

• With PCF we can provide enhanced user experience for the users to work with data on forms, views, and dashboards.
• For example, a basic ‘Whole Number’ field can be turned…