
Power Apps - A Cooler Way to use Code Apps
If you don't know about Code Apps in the Power Platform let me quickly fill you in. They are full React apps that are packaged and deployed through the Power Platform. Because they are piggy backing off the platform infrastructure rather then part of it there are some callouts You don't build them in the platform - you use VS Code (or other coding tools) The development code is not stored in the platform (only the built code) This means you don't user make.powerapps.com and even a unmanaged solution for development, as once in the platform you can't really edit them (without hacking open the solution file). The thing is, code apps are obviously not LowCode, you need fully trained developers to build them, so why would it be in the Power Platform? Well there will be some developers who use it purely to avoid setting everything up in Azure and avoiding the pain of auth, but i think the real answer is vibe coding. I wrote a blog already about how you can use GitHub Copilot to build Code A
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