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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

This chapter took you through deploying and packaging code so that it can be deployed to test and production environments. To speed up serving content, we used CDN-services through SharePoint Online and Microsoft Azure. Normally you would choose either one based on your requirements and user base. Most often you'll resort to using SharePoint Online-based CDN's, as it's slightly easier to configure and will not incur additional costs. For on-premises SharePoint environments, a logical CDN location would be either Azure Storage or an on-premises service, such as a proxy server.

In Chapter 7, Working with SharePoint Content, we'll learn how to use mock data when developing solutions locally, as well as accessing real SharePoint-based data from within your code.