Everything a new PCF developer needs to ship their first component.
Node 18+, a Dataverse environment, the pac CLI installed.
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Needed before the recipe.
Field-tested rules for building Power Apps component framework controls that survive contact with real environments — with the exact commands, the repeatable deploy process, and the failures already hit for you.
The whole field guide.
The generator wires the manifest, the TypeScript config, and the build pipeline to the versions that actually work together. Hand-rolled projects drift from the framework's expectations in ways that only surface at import time, when they are most expensive to diagnose.
The cardinal rule.
Half of all "the build broke overnight" reports are a teammate on a different Node major or a pac CLI that auto-updated. The code did not change; the toolchain did.
Pinned so the version advice stays put.
pac pcf init --namespace {{namespace}} --name {{component_name}} --template {{template}} --run-npm-install
About 45 min
The end-to-end flow, pinned to 1st ed.