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SharePoint Development with the SharePoint Framework

By : Jussi Roine, Olli Jääskeläinen
Book Image

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)

Step 2 - Running the Yeoman SharePoint generator

Next, type in the following command to start the Yeoman SharePoint generator:

    yo @microsoft/sharepoint  

Click Enter to accept the solution name to be helloworld-webpart (based on the folder we are in), and again to accept the current folder to hold the files. For the framework selection, select No JavaScript web framework. Accept HelloWorld as the web part name and HelloWorld description as web part description.

Yeoman will now scaffold the file structure for your project, and this typically takes several seconds. Then Yeoman will resolve dependencies within your project and this process typically takes several minutes:

Looks good with the ASCII art SharePoint logo and everything.