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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)

Changing the color theme

Let's start our journey with VS Code by trying to change the color theme. By default, VS Code ships in a very dark theme, which is a stark contrast from Visual Studio's light and clean white theme.

In order to access settings, and modify VS Code behavior, we need to use the Command Palette. It's not visible by default, and it automatically hides when you click outside the Command Palette if it's visible. To make it visible, press Ctrl + Shift + P or click View | Command Palette.

The Command Palette has IntelliSense, so you can just start typing characters from a command or setting you need to find. Type theme and you should get a shorter list of settings to access.

From here, we can see that changing the color theme can quickly be accessed via the Ctrl + K, Ctrl +T Keyboard combination. Select the middle one, Preferences: Color Theme.

We get a long list of pre-defined themes. Choose any theme you feel might be good for your use. As an example...