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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)

Installing the app

In order to install the app, we need to upload it first to the App Catalog:

  1. Click Apps for SharePoint and upload your .sppkg file here. You can simply drag and drop the file from Windows file explorer directly to the Apps for SharePoint document library:
  1. After the upload finishes, SharePoint will present you with a consent dialog. In this case you are deploying the solution to yourself, but in general, an administrator sees this and must make a decision whether to trust this solution or not:
  1. Your app should now be listed in the library:
  1. The app is now deployed to the tenant and listed in the App Catalog, but you also need to deploy it to the site where you intend to use it. To deploy the app, navigate to the SharePoint site where you want to deploy the app, typically under /sites/, such as https://{tenant}.sharepoint.com/sites/{your-site}. In the site, select Site contents from the gear menu (top right):
  1. Then select Add an app to get a list of all available...