PCF Builder

Build your Power Apps Component Framework custom controls faster. No need to rememeber the PCF CLI commands. All commands provided in one selection list for you to execute.

Table of contents

• PCF Builder
  • Usage
  • Requirements
  • List of all available commands
  • Features
    • Commands
    • Intellisense
      • Manifest file
    • Play Mode
    • Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Contributing & Discussions
  • License
  • Release Notes
    • 1.1.2

Usage

View list of commands via Ctrl+Shift+P and type PCF Builder

Requirements

You need to have the following prerequisites on your machine:

1. npm
2. PCF CLI
3. PCF Generator

List of all available commands

Command	Description
Initialize Component (Simple)	Creates PCF project with basic folder structure. Less questions asked.
Initialize Component (Advanced)	Creates PCF project with recommended folder structure.
Build Component	Builds the code component.
Test Component with Watch	Launches Test Harness with ability to code while testing.
Test Component with No Watch	Launches Test Harness but does not re-renderwhen code changes.
Preview Component	Loads the Test Harness inside VS Code with full functionality (except does not do live watch)
Update PCF CLI	Upgrades PCF CLI on the current machine.
Create Authentication Profile	Creates a new profile by authenticating with a particular CDS environment.
List Authentication Profile	Shows list pf profiles that are authenticated with CDS environments for current machine.
Delete Authentication Profile	Deletes a specific profile from the current machine.
Switch Authentication Profile	Changes the default profile connected to CDS environment.
Show Current Authentication Profile	List the currently selected profile connected to CDS environment.
Quick PCF Push	Pushes the code component to CDS environment based on currently selected profile.
Add new RESX File	Creates a new localization file under strings folder and adds a reference in ControlManifest file.
Add GitHub Action	Creates a .yml file that will build and create CDS solution package under Releases on GitHub.
Generate ReadMe file	Creates a preety ReadMe file by parsing the ControlManifst file.
Open Developer Tool	Open dev tools inside VS Code that lets you tinker the code component like you do in browser.

Features

Commands

1. Initialize PCF control

   

2. Build & Test PCF control

   

3. Preview PCF control

   

4. Manage Authentication Profiles

   

5. Update PCF CLI

   

6. Quick Deploy using PCF Push

   

7. Advanced Mode and Adding Resx file

   

Intellisense

Manifest file

Invoke it by pressing Ctrl + Space

Play Mode

Keyboard Shortcuts

Command	Keyboard Shortcut
Initialize PCF project	Ctrl + P, Ctrl + I
Build PCF project	Ctrl + P, Ctrl + B
Test with watch	Ctrl + P, Ctrl + T
Preview component	Ctrl + P, F5
Update PCF CLI	Ctrl + P, Ctrl + U
PCF Quick Push	Ctrl + P, Ctrl + Q
Invoke Force Mode	Ctrl + P, Ctrl + F
Add additional RESX file	Ctrl + P, Ctrl + R

Contributing & Discussions

Found a bug? or have a feature request? - Create a pull request or an issue on GitHub If you want to have any discussions on any feature, please use the Discussion Board

License

This software is released under MIT License

Release Notes

Latest release contains following items:

1.1.2

• Features
  • Added a new command "Preview Component" that will show Test Harness inside of VS Code
  • New toolbar added that lets you play the preview command from any document along with ability to open DevTools

Previous release notes are documented here.