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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)

Additional considerations

In order to fulfill business requirements with limited resources, we are often in situations where using third-party libraries and frameworks makes a lot of sense. Depending on the experience of the developers and the expectations of the customer, we will end up choosing a specific framework or set of libraries. Some of them are very easy to incorporate to SharePoint Framework, like React and Fabric React as well as AngularJS or Angular 1+. Others might work just as well, but the lack of guidance and examples might steer us away from them. Experience in both using the specific frameworks or libraries and SharePoint Framework will guide us through, and you will learn by doing and resolving issues when needed.

Among the first questions we face is whether to bundle your project or not. If the source files are very small, it is probably easiest and most convenient to bundle the libraries or frameworks as part of our web part projects. But for bigger libraries or...