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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)

Building feedback web part user experience

The FeedbackWebPart.ts file has the render method, which is at the core of user experience. We want there to be an icon, a text field with hint text, and a button. There are many ways to do that. This time we are building DOM elements by first inserting some HTML and then binding event handlers, and so on. In Chapter 9, Using React and Office UI Fabric React Components, and Chapter 10, Working with Different JavaScript Frameworks and 3rd Party Frameworks, you will see different approaches, such as React and various JavaScript libraries.

We start from the src\webparts\feedback\Feedback.module.scss file. Replace the contents of the file with the following simple CSS definition and save the file.

.input { 
border: 1px solid gray;
width: 50%;
margin: 0px 10px 0px 10px;
}
.successIndicator {
border: 0px;
}

The reason we can get away with such simple CSS is that we are using classes from Office UI Fabric.

Next, open FeedbackWebPart...