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SharePoint Development with the SharePoint Framework

By : Jussi Roine, Olli Jääskeläinen
Book Image

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)

Button

Fabric React's Button is a versatile component and can take many forms, which are called variants. In the earlier version of Fabric React, you could declare Button as <Button />, defining the desired buttonType to declare the variant that you want to use. But this has been deprecated and we recommend that you use a specific variant component, such as <CommandButton/>, in your definition. Using Button is a bit confusing because we already have an HTML button:

<!-- deprecated - don't use -->
<Button iconProps={ { iconName: "addFriend"} } buttonType={ButtonType.command}>Command</Button><!-- correct use of variant button -->
<CommandButton iconProps={ { iconName: "addFriend"} }>Command</CommandButton>

Currently available button types are CommandButton, CompoundButton, DefaultButton, IconButton, and PrimaryButton. To use a specific style of button, import it at the start of the web part:

import { CommandButton...