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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)

Accessing Microsoft Graph with Graph Explorer

To access Microsoft Graph, Microsoft provides Graph Explorer. It's a free and open source tool that allows developers a nice way to query the Graph APIs. You can download the code from https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/graph-explorer if you want to see how it works but there's no need for that because you can just use the tool at https://graph.microsoft.io.

You can use the tool with sample data, or you can log in with your Microsoft or Organizational account to get full benefits. This way, you can query against live data. Just be careful as the data is yours and you could accidentally modify or delete critical items.

Queries against Graph API can be entered in the query bar, in the form of https://graph.microsoft.com/{version}/{target}. The version at the time of writing this book is either 1.0 (for stable endpoints) or beta (for upcoming features). Typically, you would call Graph APIs through https://graph.microsoft.com...