Preface

SharePoint Online is a powerful and versatile platform and one of Microsoft 365’s core services. It supplies experiences to other applications, such as OneDrive, Microsoft Teams, or Viva Connections. Since the modern SharePoint experience, launched in 2016, it has been evolving rapidly bringing new features at a monthly pace.

SharePoint offers various methods for building solutions to support daily work life, communications, and collaboration. Besides the out-of-the-box features, SharePoint Online can be extended in various ways from simple view customizations made by browser to extensive customizations including custom code, APIs, and backend systems.

This book will first introduce the fundamental concepts and structural elements, such as sites, lists and libraries, and supporting services, such as search and managed metadata of SharePoint Online. It will present various ways to extend SharePoint Online using just a browser, such as editing list views or column styles. SharePoint Online supports low-code tools that help you create solutions without coding. You can use Power Automate to create workflows that automate processes, and Power Apps to create simple apps that customize your SharePoint Online experience.

SharePoint Framework is an application development platform for creating applications to SharePoint Online, but also different Microsoft 365 services and applications, such as Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and Viva Connections. This book will introduce various customization models SharePoint Framework provides.