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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)

How to obtain Fabric React for your web part

The easiest way to start using Fabric React is to create a web part from the Yeoman template using React and then run the following command on Command Prompt while in the web part folder:

    npm --save install office-ui-fabric-react 

Next, in the file you will use a Fabric React component. Add the following import statement:

import { ColorPicker } from 'office-ui-fabric-react/lib/ColorPicker'; 

To add the Fabric React component inside your component, use the following pattern:

You should be able to see the Fabric React component in your web part. The component has all the Office UI Fabric styling applied automatically. You can take a look at the page source to see what was actually generated: