Editing Flows In Code With Power Automate Tools
Editing flows in code can be useful for updates & validations, but UI is still faster for creating new flows. Power Automate Tools chrome extension makes editing definition.json easier with intellisense & validation checks.
The biggest strength of Power Automate is it's user interface, based on the Logic App UI, but even more user friendly, it's why anyone can create amazing automations. So why would anyone want to create a flow in code instead of with the UI, I have no idea, but I did anyway. How it Started I first got interested in the code of a flow when I had to update 500 flows (they didn't have connection references so I didn't want to have to manually update every connection when deploying to a dedicated environment). Looking at the definition.json I was able to identify the connections of the f...