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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)

Debugging in Visual Studio Code

There's an extension available for Google Chrome for Visual Studio Code that greatly helps when debugging SPFx projects. To start using the extension, first install it in VS Code:

  1. Click on the EXTENSIONS pane in VS Code (or press Ctrl + Shift + X):
  1. Search for Debugger for Chrome and click on Install. Remember to reload VS Code window by clicking on the reload button to load this new extension.
  2. Now, we will need to introduce Chrome debugging for VS Code. Start by clicking on the debug icon on the left (or Ctrl + Shift + D):
  1. Then, click on No Configurations and on Add configuration:
  1. Select Chrome from the drop-down list.
  2. This creates a new launch.json configuration file to parametrize the configuration for debugging with Chrome. Remove all contents in the file and replace it with following:
{ 
    "version": "0.2.0", 
    "configurations": [ 
        { 
            "name": "Local workbench&quot...