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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 4 - Running the web part on a local workbench

Now, type the following command to instruct Gulp to start the Node.js server and open the browser with a local copy of SharePoint Workbench, a page you will see a lot when doing the SharePoint Framework development:

    gulp serve 

Your default browser will open and navigate to https://localhost:4321, a well-known address for SharePoint Workbench:

In this page, click the plus icon to add your HelloWorld web part to the page. The page looks like SharePoint Online, but the app menu (waffle menu in the top-left corner) is fake:

And you will see the web part in the action:

Click the pen icon to modify web part properties and change the Description property to your liking:

Next, we are going to do some investigation work on the code the Yeoman SharePoint generator created for us.