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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)

Key features of the SharePoint Framework

Besides the types of projects the SharePoint Framework supports, there are other key aspects of the approach that developers need to be aware of.

First, and foremost, the SharePoint Framework-based customizations and custom code runs in the context of a logged-in current user and connection with the browser.

Elevation of privileges, which would often be a way for developers to circumvent the permission model of SharePoint in full-trust code, are not used with the SharePoint Framework. As no IFrames are used, all code that you deploy that is based on the SharePoint Framework always executes with the permissions, privileges, and access of the current user. Keep this in mind when implementing your solutions, as you might need to store additional data elsewhere and the user either must have access to that location, or you need to resort to external code to shield your data or make it harder to access directly.

Each solution that you choose to make...