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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)

Creating the feedback web part project

Now that the list of our data has been created and configured, we are ready to start building the web part. Our web part will provide a simple input form for gathering feedback and will save inputted feedback to a SharePoint list.

The use of Command Prompt and the Yeoman generator is almost the same as in the HelloWorld web part we created in Chapter 3, Getting Started with the SharePoint Framework.

First, start Command Prompt, create a new folder, go into the new folder, and start the Yeoman generator using the following commands:

    md feedback-webpart 
cd feedback-webpart
yo @microsoft/sharepoint

Use the following parameters to create the web part. Don't worry if your Yeoman experience looks slightly different. The tool evolves quite rapidly, and certain aspects of the interface, including the questions it asks, might change over time.