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SharePoint Development with the SharePoint Framework

By : Jussi Roine, Olli Jääskeläinen
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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)

Provisioning of the Feedback list and other resources

At the beginning of the chapter, we created the feedback list at the root of a SharePoint Online site collection. We did this using the user interface. There is nothing wrong with that, unless you need to create dozens or even hundreds of lists. In that case, the provisioning of the required SharePoint resources should be automated. Many SharePoint professionals will script the creation of lists even when they only need a few them. It is good practice because it is less error-prone and you can easily delete everything and recreate it while developing the solution.

Currently, the main approach to provisioning is called remote provisioning, as mentioned in the first chapters. In remote provisioning, a code, which is usually a PowerShell script but can be also native C# application of any type, creates the required lists and other resources when the administrator wants them to be created, or in scheduled manner, or as part of another...