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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 the SharePoint Framework React To-do web part

We will now build a React web part to implement a mockup to-do list--like a poor man's planner in Office 365. It will not save the to-do list, but if you want, you can implement that using the CRUD list item operations we went through in Chapter 7, Working with SharePoint Content.

The following screenshot shows the actual web part user interface we are building:

Web part has a title, command button, and list of to-do items. The icon in the to-do item shows whether it has been done or not. When the user clicks on the Add new To-do button, we will show a panel with a user interface to fill in the To-do item information:

When the user clicks on an existing To-do item, we will see an edit panel, with a button to Delete this item: