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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)

Setting web part basics

Wait until the generator finishes, and then start Visual Studio Code with the following command.

    code . 

Documentation is one of the key components when you are building stable, reliable solutions. So, let's open README.md from the root folder of the web part project and document what we are doing.

Find the following section:

## feedback-webpart 

This is where you include your WebPart documentation.

Replace the following and save the file:

## Feedback web part 

This web part allows the user to type in a comment concerning the current page. The comment is saved to Feedback list on the site collection root along with URL information of the page the comment is concerning.

Next, we open config\package-solution.json and replace the solution name with proper language. Remember to save the file after the modification.

"name": "Feedback web part", 

The name is visible in the app catalog. Open the manifest file located in src\webparts\feedback...