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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 took a detailed look at the Web Part property pane, which is also available in classic Web Parts within SharePoint. With SharePoint Frameworks' more modern capabilities the property pane is now much more useful, as it supports both reactive and non-reactive event handling. This provides a more fluid user experience as selections and changes within the property pane can be immediately reflected in the Web Part canvas for a user.

In addition to this chapter, we implementing multi-page property panes to better categorize a scenario where you might have multiple properties to fill out.

Finally, we implemented a custom property pane field that allows us to inject custom HTML within the property pane.

In the next chapter, you'll learn to use different JavaScript frameworks, including React and Angular, as part of our SharePoint Framework web parts.