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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)

What is Microsoft Graph?

While the topic of Microsoft Graph is very interesting, it's also fairly large, and this book wouldn't be able to accommodate everything there is to know about this service.

In simple terms, Microsoft Graph is a unified platform that offers a single endpoint for accessing Office 365 and certain Microsoft Azure services including Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). This removes the need for developers to learn multiple different APIs, where typically each API acts a little bit differently from each other, depending on the service they communicate with.

The benefit of using Microsoft Graph is evident; by authenticating with Microsoft Graph, a developer can create code that can easily access most major Office 365 services, including SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Exchange Online, and Office 365 Groups. In addition, Microsoft Graph also provides visibility to Azure Active Directory-stored entities, such as users and groups, individual...