--- title: Good Bye Power BI Reports | Welcome Fabric Apps | daily.dev description: Microsoft Fabric Apps is a new preview feature that lets developers build full data-driven web applications connected to Fabric data sources, handling... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/good-bye-power-bi-reports-welcome-fabric-apps-msylhs6ko twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Good Bye Power BI Reports | Welcome Fabric Apps | daily.dev og:description: Microsoft Fabric Apps is a new preview feature that lets developers build full data-driven web applications connected to Fabric data sources, handling... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/good-bye-power-bi-reports-welcome-fabric-apps-msylhs6ko og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/msylhS6KO.png og:image:alt: Good Bye Power BI Reports | Welcome Fabric Apps og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Good Bye Power BI Reports | Welcome Fabric Apps **[YouTube](https://daily.dev/sources/youtube)** · 12 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Microsoft Fabric Apps is a new preview feature that lets developers build full data-driven web applications connected to Fabric data sources, handling authentication and hosting automatically. Unlike Power BI reports, Fabric Apps have no UI constraints — you can use any code library. The walkthrough covers enabling the feature in admin settings, scaffolding a project via CLI in VS Code using a template, building a 3D product carousel UI with React Three Fiber using Claude as the AI coding assistant, and wiring up a backend SQL database in Fabric to feed product data into the app. The entire process from zero to a working app took roughly 1.5–2 hours with AI assistance. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is Microsoft Fabric Apps and how is it different from Power BI reports? Fabric Apps is a preview feature that lets developers build full custom applications connected to Fabric data, with Microsoft handling authentication and hosting. Unlike Power BI reports, which limit design to Power BI's built-in options, Fabric Apps let you use any code library, such as React Three Fiber, for unlimited UI customization while still reading from Fabric databases. _Developers weighing Power BI's constraints against custom app flexibility can track Fabric Apps coverage on daily.dev._ ### How do you enable Fabric Apps in Power BI admin settings? You enable the Fabric Apps preview feature in the Power BI admin portal, then also enable the REST API for semantic model queries execution, since that API is required to connect the app to Fabric data. A Fabric workspace (or trial) must also be set up before creating a new app item from the workspace. _Anyone setting up a new Fabric feature can follow along with configuration walkthroughs like this via daily.dev._ ### Can AI coding assistants like Claude Code build a working backend for a Microsoft Fabric app automatically? Yes, prompting an AI assistant to set up a backend with a database in Fabric that feeds product data into the app resulted in it defining the product schema, enabling the data service, deploying the backend, and wiring the app to read from the new Fabric SQL database, with only a minor authentication fix needed afterward. _Developers testing how far AI agents can automate backend setup can follow real examples like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The Power BI Developer's Survival Guide to Microsoft Fabric](https://daily.dev/posts/the-power-bi-developer-s-survival-guide-to-microsoft-fabric-322vqrans) · Towards Data Science · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#react](https://daily.dev/tags/react), [#data-visualization](https://daily.dev/tags/data-visualization), [#vibe-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/vibe-coding), [#power-bi](https://daily.dev/tags/power-bi), [#microsoft-fabric](https://daily.dev/tags/microsoft-fabric) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/good-bye-power-bi-reports-welcome-fabric-apps-msylhs6ko) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Good Bye Power BI Reports | Welcome Fabric Apps","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/good-bye-power-bi-reports-welcome-fabric-apps-msylhs6ko","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/good-bye-power-bi-reports-welcome-fabric-apps-msylhs6ko"},"datePublished":"2026-07-16T15:44:46.470Z","dateModified":"2026-09-13T21:54:00.157Z","description":"Microsoft Fabric Apps is a new preview feature that lets developers build full data-driven web applications connected to Fabric data sources, handling...","image":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/p0gzrFG868w/sddefault.jpg","thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/p0gzrFG868w/sddefault.jpg","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"YouTube","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"YouTube","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--W5zMumpP--/f_auto/v1725350181/logos/youtube","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/youtube"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/good-bye-power-bi-reports-welcome-fabric-apps-msylhs6ko","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"react,data-visualization,vibe-coding,power-bi,microsoft-fabric","timeRequired":"PT12M","video":{"@type":"VideoObject","name":"Good Bye Power BI Reports | Welcome Fabric Apps","description":"Microsoft Fabric Apps is a new preview feature that lets developers build full data-driven web applications connected to Fabric data sources, handling...","thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/p0gzrFG868w/sddefault.jpg","uploadDate":"2026-07-16T15:44:46.470Z","duration":"PT12M","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/msylhS6KO","embedUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/embed/p0gzrFG868w"}} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"YouTube","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/youtube"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Good Bye Power BI Reports | Welcome Fabric Apps"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/good-bye-power-bi-reports-welcome-fabric-apps-msylhs6ko#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What is Microsoft Fabric Apps and how is it different from Power BI reports?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Fabric Apps is a preview feature that lets developers build full custom applications connected to Fabric data, with Microsoft handling authentication and hosting. 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