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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)

Creating an Office 365 Group and new SharePoint list

There are multiple ways to create Office 365 Groups; you can do it from the SharePoint Home, as we are going to do next, from Outlook (both Web Access and Outlook 2016 client work just nicely), or you can create a team in Microsoft Teams, which actually creates an Office 365 Group.

  1. Open https://portal.office.com in your browser.
  2. Sign-in using your developer tenant account and password.
  3. From the tile, select and click your favorite; SharePoint.
  1. This will lead you to SharePoint home.
  2. Click Create site.

 

  1. Write in Team site name, for example, SPFX-testing. As you can see, the email name and Team site address are derived from the site name. You can also edit the email name, which in turn changes the Team site address.
  1. Click Next.
  2. Wait a bit, then click Finish.
  3. In a few seconds, you will be redirected to the newly created Team site, which is part of the Office 365 Group's functionality.

 

  1. To add a new list, click...