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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we focused on working with SharePoint data from your client-side web parts. We started with an overview of accessing SharePoint content, then we practiced how to work with mock data in local Workbench. After that, we covered in detail how to access lists in SharePoint sites as well as how to do all the basic operations with SharePoint list items.

In the next chapter, we'll work with SharePoint Web Parts, and especially the property pane that allows us to provide parameter values and data to our Web Parts. This is important as configuration data is often dynamic and should be easy to update when using the solution in different pages and tenants.