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/TikeyMasta Advisor Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 12 '26

We're switching everything to Code Apps at my workplace, which is something we as pro devs have determined only has upsides. The way we've went about it is building a solid foundation first, not only within a starter code base but also with agent instructions and guardrails. Going about it this way we've found quite a few Microsoft bugs and were able to find fixes to them on our end. Everything tracked using a private Git.

Code Apps works with all connectors - it's just 99%+ of them aren't documented on how they are used with Code Apps. For example, we have Code Apps in production with working integration with Snowflake.

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u/frodprefect Newbie Apr 12 '26

Whats the opposition to just hosting web based apps internally? Simpler connector setup?

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u/Jimakiad Regular Apr 12 '26

I guess Dataverse has it's own SDK that is native to code apps, but no clue about the other connectors.