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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)
Introducing SharePoint Online for Developers

SharePoint Online is a core part of Office 365, which is a Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud service from Microsoft. SharePoint Online (SPO) is one of the services in Office 365 that companies and organizations typically purchase when they move parts or all of their infrastructure and services to a public cloud service.

In this chapter, we'll take a lap around Office 365 and SharePoint Online, with a strong focus on development models and features that are relevant to you as a developer. In addition we'll provision a new SharePoint site collection that will aid us in testing code we'll write in upcoming chapters. At the end of this chapter, you'll have a good overview of SharePoint Online and the development models that have been, and some of which still are, available to you in on-premises SharePoint and SharePoint Online.