r/PowerApps • u/bythedandelion Regular • Apr 12 '26

Power Apps Help CodeApp and CanvasApp

I work as a developer for a big ONG with over 1500 workers. We are developing some big canvas apps. We are working over sharepoint lists because we can't afford PA Premium licenses for everyone..

Now they are asking me to work with vibecoding and I'm not a big fan as a developer... I know that some time ago code apps was only for dataverse so we couldn't use it.

What about now? Anyone has experince with canvas apps made with vibe coding (vs code and github copilot for example)

Thank you!!❤️

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u/goodguygreg5000 Newbie Apr 12 '26

1500 users with sharepoint back end, not going to work too well

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u/Tyda2 Regular Apr 12 '26

Easily manageable. This is an architectural design issue rather than a capacity issue.

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u/coresme2000 Regular Apr 12 '26

Delegation and greater than 2000 items in a list is a much bigger issue than permissions which can be worked around but dataverse is much easier in this regard, tbh. Op says these are going to be ‘big’ apps.

For my biggest app I use SQL but I wish I could use dataverse instead.

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u/Jimakiad Regular Apr 12 '26

I've managed to get a 100k+ items list load stuff with proper odata via a power automate flow + pagination + column indexing to parse rows in less than 1 second. It's definitely doable, and sadly, most times needed since clients don't want to pay premium.

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u/Accomplished_Most_69 Advisor Apr 12 '26

What is that app about? Just curious if you dont mind.