About PortalForge

A faster way to build Dataverse portals.

What is PortalForge?

PortalForge is a visual portal builder for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. It lets you design, data-bind, and deploy portals to Power Pages without writing Liquid templates, OData queries, or custom JavaScript.

You drag components onto a canvas, point them at Dataverse tables, configure actions and security through visual panels, and publish with one click. The result is a standard Power Pages portal — same infrastructure, same security model, same URLs — built in minutes instead of weeks.

Who is it for?

  • Dynamics 365 consultants who build portals for clients and want to ship faster with less custom code.
  • Power Platform teams who need external-facing portals without dedicating a developer to Liquid template work.
  • Small and mid-size businesses using Dataverse who need customer, vendor, or partner portals without enterprise-scale budgets.

How is it different from Power Pages?

PortalForge deploys to Power Pages. It's not a replacement — it's a better way to build what you'd otherwise build by hand. Power Pages is the hosting platform. PortalForge is the builder.

The key differences: visual drag-and-drop instead of Liquid templates, instant preview with real data instead of 15-minute cache waits, and one-click publish instead of manual solution packaging.

Technology

Built with React, TypeScript, and Vite. The builder itself is a client-side application. When you publish, PortalForge generates an optimized React Single Page Application (SPA) and deploys it to Power Pages as a code site.

This is different from traditional Power Pages development, where every page is a server-rendered Liquid template. PortalForge portals are client-side SPAs — they load once, navigate instantly between pages, and fetch data directly from Dataverse via the OData Web API with MSAL token authentication. The result is a faster, more responsive portal that still runs on Power Pages infrastructure.

You get the best of both worlds: the hosting, security model, and Dataverse integration of Power Pages, with the performance and developer experience of a modern React application.