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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)

Updating the project to support a SharePoint Online CDN

For now, our CDN endpoint is ready, but the folder is still empty. We need to instruct our SharePoint Framework project to start using the CDN path next. Before changing anything in the configuration, we have to construct a publicly accessible URL that points to our CDN.

The base address is always https://publiccdn.sharepointonline.com/{tenant-name}.sharepoint.com/{cdn-origin-id}. We need to replace the {tenant-name} to point to our Office 365 tenant, and then replace the CDN origin ID with a real ID. This is the ID you got from Get-SPOPublicCdnOrigins commands.

A base address with our tenant name and modifications might look like this: https://publiccdn.sharepointonline.com/tenant.sharepoint.com/12390061f758b807354244dd12e9808aba5c97058384a46b61b43861da5e600492d2947. Write this down, as you'll need it next.

Now, let's update the project:

  1. Go back to Visual Studio Code and find the write-manifests.json file in the...