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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)

App Catalog

Deploying SharePoint Framework packages happens through a special site called the App Catalog in SharePoint.

Verify that you have App Catalog correctly provisioned before moving on to installing your app:

  1. Navigate to your SharePoint admin center as a global admin or a SharePoint admin of your tenant. The direct link is https://{tenant}-admin.sharepoint.com/, where {tenant} is obviously your chosen tenant name, such as CompanyA. If you're deploying code to a locally hosted SharePoint, you need to create the App Catalog manually through central admin first.
  2. From the left-hand navigation, choose apps and then choose App Catalog:
  1. If you haven't already created an App Catalog, you are now prompted to create a new site collection that will be your App Catalog:
  1. After creating the site collection, you can navigate to the App Catalog the same way through Apps | App Catalog, and it now points to your App Catalog site:
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This is a site that end-users do not visit...