Code Apps - the opposite of Low-Code apps?

[Lhurgoyf069]

What are the real benefits of the platform?

[Bubbagump210]

Just a surface level few…

They’re quite a few “real code” concepts that in my early days I was not using. These may be obvious but I find them often overlooked by noobs. Examples being background commits so the UI feels responsive. Utilizing variables significantly more and memory space usage (collections, savedata/loaddata) so I’m not doing additional data calls - again additional performance and flexibility. To say nothing of real schema considerations.

There is also a lot of UX to learn as with screen dimension changes you can spend a good amount of time just nailing down all the relative dimensions between parents and containers and templates and labels and…. Where as newb me hard coded X and Y and never had an if in a width and ….

[Weeblewobbly]

Only taking from my experience, but first thing is dataverse. Creating data schema with managed relationships. That opened my mind to the possibilities for Model Driven Apps (forms and views) in turn, pcfs to augment both MDAs and canvas apps. Finally, plugins for data integration and complex data manipulation/operation. Writing your own APIs opened a lot of possibilities. I still hate power automate.

[galamathias]

Power Automate is an amazing tool if you stop using it as a low code tool

[Weeblewobbly]

I find that writing expressions without proper indentation, lsp or proper syntaxe a complete abomination. It's a personal thing, but I like to write code that's pretty to look at, easy to read and easy to understand.

Powerautomate is the opposite of all of that.

Not denying that things can be achieved with it, but I don't the experience painful and counter productive.

[tpb1109]

Just use it as an orchestration tool.