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0 pointsmgummelt5y ago0 comments

While I have you here, I have to say I still don't understand the connection you're making between PowerFX and compatibility with existing deployment systems. I understand that a low-code platform that spits out an app in some sort of standard format, like source code or a docker image, would facilitate that integration, but where does PowerFX come in?

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hudgeon5y ago· 2 in thread

PowerFX is MS's name for the standard code format. I believe their ultimate goal is that:

- business users build apps using a graphical low-code interface,

- these then convert to PowerFX source code that goes into the enterprise's source control system.

- The enterprise IT team tests the code, re-writes key components and deploys.

- And these changes are then reflected back into the low-code app development environment.

This allows business users to contribute domain expertise and IT to maintain their quality and governance role.

Needless to say, this is non-trivial from a tech perspective but, in my view, is a better approach than an enterprise having a separate deployment and governance framework for low-code/RPA apps than for their other custom applications developed in Java/C++ etc.

mgummeltOP5y ago

Where are you seeing that it's a standard code format? I've skimmed this: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/what-is-microsoft... and it seems that it's just a simple expression language, not a standard format that an entire PowerApps app would compile down to.

hudgeon5y ago

Hmmm. Good question. I was using standard format to mean two things:

1. Common code format across the Power platform, and

2. the branding MS was using to describe everything that would be put under source control.

I have some doubts about whether the second point is true.

This article (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/power-fx/ove...) discuss PowerFX stored as YAML files under source control.

And this article which predates the PowerFX announcement (https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/source-code-files...) discusses UI YAML files under source control.

But nowhere does it say that they are branding the UI YAML files under the PowerFX moniker.

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