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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)

AngularJS and Angular

AngularJS (also known as angular.js or angular.js 1.X) is a full SPA (Single Page Application) framework and popular open-source JavaScript web application framework mainly maintained by Google. It broadly follows the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern to separate presentation, data, and logic components. It uses scoping, bootstrapping and two-way data binding. The latest version of AngularJS at the time of the writing is 1.6.4.

In 2014, the Angular team decided to embark on a rewrite, and originally called it Angular 2. Now, Angular 4 is often referred to as just Angular. Angular is not backward compatible with Angular1/AngularJS and is fundamentally different in design. Angular (also known as Angular 2 or Angular 2+) is a complete rewrite from the same team that wrote AngularJS. It doesn't use scoping but hierarchical components, has simpler expression syntax, is more modular and aimed to serve modern browsers, and actually recommends the use of Microsoft...