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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)

Is SharePoint Framework the final framework for SharePoint developers?

We've had this question posed to us over the years multiple times. Just replace the SharePoint Framework with any of the previous development models, and you'll see this question is something that is impossible to answer with certainty. For now and for the past few years since Microsoft announced SPFx to be a first-class development framework for SharePoint, the answer has been a solid yes. We're seeing SPFx pick up a lot faster than previous models, and the support that both Microsoft and the community are providing has been excellent so far.

A major influence on the adoption of SPFx has been through the Office Developer Patterns and Practices, which is a highly active program to educate and evangelize the SharePoint Framework, among other things.

While we're seeing enthusiastic reception for SPFx, we're also seeing developers who are still not yet ready or willing to move to this new development...