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SharePoint Development with the SharePoint Framework

By : Jussi Roine, Olli Jääskeläinen
Book Image

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)

React is declarative

When we use React, we have an option to use JSX, which gives us a markup-style syntax, which is then compiled to procedural JavaScript code. JSX stands for Syntax Extensions for JavaScript. Consider the following statement:

const helloElement = <h3>Hello, {user.name}</h3>; 

It is not pure JavaScript, nor is it pure HTML--it is something in between. It definitely mixes JavaScript and HTML in a very powerful and expressive way. In JSX, you wrap JavaScript inside the XML style markup using curly braces, and you can close your tag with />, as follows:

const userPicture = <img src="{user.imageUrl}"/>;  

A React element can have only one root element, but it can have nested elements. When you write JSX, there are some differences to it from HTML; for example, in the attribute names, you can't use attribute class (because it is a reserved name in ECMAScript 6), but, instead, you need to use className, and the attribute names are always...