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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)

Overview of working with SharePoint content

When you build solutions for SharePoint, you will inevitably run into scenarios where you need some sort of data and content. This might be a situation where you are creating a web part that lists news items that are saved in a SharePoint list. Or this might be a scenario where you'll show the latest modified documents, and based on that, provide additional information for users. In most scenarios, you'll find it more helpful if you have data and content within SharePoint that you can access, view, and use.

With previous development models for SharePoint, it was customary to mock up data. This could be garbage, or classic lorem ipsum content scattered around to help a developer mimic a real-world service when developing, testing, and troubleshooting code. For, on-premises SharePoint (and to a certain degree SharePoint Online), there have been several tools that generate content that looks and acts real.

You might still, at times, need...