Daryl and Scott interview Mike Stall, Power Fx Architect at Microsoft, and chat about the Canvas Apps GitHub Integration.
Some of the highlights:
- Was there any master plan behind canvas apps expressions to take over the whole platform?
- Daryl's "Managing the Low Code Portion of Complex Power Apps" session
- The humble beginning
- Extremely Experimental Git Collaboration
- How maniacal edits are being handled
- Git blame and naming is hard
- Will GitHub Integration come to model-driven apps?
- Noisy diffs and other scary parts of making GitHub Integration happen
- Prioritisation is a challenge
- Help the team behind the GitHub Integration by providing feedback
- Writing 10-page paper with MS Word 95 on Windows 95
- View the diffs between different versions on Git
Mike's Info and other links:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-stall-b0762b7
- Announcement: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/experimental-co-authoring-for-power-apps-studio
- Documentation for Canvas Coauthoring: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/git-version-control
- Power Apps Language Tooling repo: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerApps-Language-Tooling
- PowerFX repo: https://github.com/microsoft/power-fx
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