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SharePoint Development with the SharePoint Framework

By : Jussi Roine, Olli Jääskeläinen
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SharePoint Development with the SharePoint Framework

By: Jussi Roine, Olli Jääskeläinen

Overview of this book

SharePoint is one of Microsoft's best known web platforms. A loyal audience of developers, IT Pros and power users use it to build line of business solutions. The SharePoint Framework (SPFx) is a great new option for developing SharePoint solutions. Many developers are creating full-trust based solutions or add-in solutions, while also figuring out where and how SPFx fits in the big picture. This book shows you how design, build, deploy and manage SPFx based solutions for SharePoint Online and SharePoint 2016. The book starts by getting you familiar with the basic capabilities of SPFx. After that, we will walk through the tool-chain on how to best create production-ready solutions that can be easily deployed manually or fully automated throughout your target Office 365 tenants. We describe how to configure and use Visual Studio Code, the de facto development environment for SPFx-based solutions. Next, we provide guidance and a solid approach to packaging and deploying your code. We also present a straightforward approach to troubleshooting and debugging your code an environment where business applications run on the client side instead of the server side.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we took a look at troubleshooting common toolchain issues with the SharePoint Framework. As the framework, along with its hooks into open source tools and platforms continues to evolve rapidly, it is not too uncommon to run into new issues and errors in your projects. The approaches we showed aim to quickly help you isolate the issues and better help you understand why your code does not deploy or compile as expected.

Then, we covered analyzing and optimizing your code primarily through the use of not bundling larger libraries in your deployable package. You can reference these common libraries as external libraries with the use of CDNs.

In addition, we also configured Visual Studio Code to support debugging through Google Chrome with the use of Chrome's remote debugging capabilities. This approach also works for the hosted version of SharePoint Workbench in SharePoint Online.

In the next chapter, we will take a look at security and APIs in SharePoint.

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