After learning about some of the latest advances in PowerFX from the great @MikeStall at the Power Platform conference this past September, I decided to author my own PowerFX implementation use case, and set about pondering what that should be... I eventually settled on the idea of Plugin execution context, mostly because the only PFX evaluator Open Sourced so far is the C# one, and @filcole had already beaten me to the punch with his amazing Custom API implementation!
This is the first of a series of blog posts I'll put up here on the community detailing that journey, as I have built--and continue to build--that concept and put it up on GitHub for the community to take and expand upon.
In this post (part 1) I will walk through what was the simplest part of the journey: writing a simple PCF Monaco Code Editor for PowerFX. This editor falls far short of the samples already on GitHub from the PowerFX team, but it is very Dataverse-friendly and that's why I felt this alternative needed to be authored.
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