Mike Stall and Canvas Apps GitHub Integration

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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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