Ideas to make .msapp files 'source code' (i.e. developer) friendly about powerapps-tooling HOT 5 CLOSED

Thanks for the discussion!

Re the original points:
1 - "why not just trivial unzip"? Fully agree. "PaSopa" (and Solution Packager) should just be an unzip. Our take was that we could iterate far quicker with a client-side tool, more easily collect user feedback, and we could make it open source. Our longer term plan is to push these updates into the server and make this a trivial unzip operation.
Although we also do want to enable the rich client-side things like multiple msapps sharing the same \pkg folder, so there will be some good future discussion there.

2 - (yaml/json/etc) - A dedicated issue was filed to discuss this. Can you followup there: #111

3- IDE support - fully agree. We just haven't built it yet. we choose to release what we had first because we believe it already offered significant value.

4- Programming Language - The product has an existing language (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/formula-reference), which is heavily based on Excel. We're supporting the existing product, although we may have future conversations about other languages.

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Woleheartedly agree with this.

• Pack/unpack should go. In fact, we should have a viewer in an IDE like LogicApp where we can switch between the two
• YAML..?
• Intelisense, of course
• Coding PowerApps in Python? Definetly a nice bonus ^^

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Hi,

Great to have this feature! As source code management becomes more a thing nowadays, even with small businesses and small projects, this is a very helpful feature.

What I fail to understand is why you are using YAML here... The whole app is based on JSON-files and we already export the solution and store the JSON-files at this point. JSON is perfectly readable and far more accepted than YAML.

Marc

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Why YAML, whyyyyy?! 😭 Would love to see JSON instead...

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Thank you everyone for your responses! We've collected your feedback and appreciate the time you've spent on improving this repo.

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