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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)

Key files of the SharePoint Framework web part projects

Let's open HelloWorldWebPart.ts again. As said before, the main program of HelloWorld web part is the render function in this file:

This function shows one way of building web part content. Instead of using any JavaScript framework or library, such as Angular, React, or Knockout, we are simply assigning the HTML value inside the inner HTML property of our web parts DOM element.

Using the special character ` (backtick operator) to start and end the string, HTML can be divided into multiple lines with ease. We have simple templating to use with our ${statement} placeholders. In the code, it puts the class names in place as well as writing a description web part property value to the page.

Note that the escape function from the lodash library is used to ensure that any JavaScript injected by this property is sanitized (and not executed) in the page. An old saying of security experts is that all user input is evil.

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