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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)

The SharePoint Framework support in SharePoint 2016

In September 2017, Microsoft announced the availability of Feature Pack 2 for SharePoint Server 2016. This update includes initial support for the SharePoint Framework-based customizations in locally hosted SharePoint 2016 farms.

The update is available through the September 2017 Public Update, and the bits can be downloaded for your SharePoint 2016 farm from https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt715807%28v=office.16%29.aspx.

As the support does not--at least in the initial release--have parity with all the SharePoint Framework functionalities Microsoft supports with SharePoint Online, it is more limited but still very usable. Now, developers can target their code for on-premises and cloud-based deployments, with minimal, if any, changes to their code. In time, Microsoft will provide further updates to SharePoint 2016, which makes using SPFx a logical choice as a development approach.

Customers who are still running older versions...