SharePoint Development with the SharePoint Framework

Create effective business solutions using modern development tools for SharePoint Online SharePoint is one of Microsoft's best-known web platforms. A loyal audience of developers, IT professionals and power users use it to build a variety of business solutions. You'll explore the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) and get up to speed with creating full-trust-based solutions or add-in solutions, while also figuring out where and how SPFx fits in the big picture. With the help of this SharePoint book, you'll learn how to design, build, deploy and manage SPFx-based solutions for SharePoint Online and SharePoint 2016. You'll start by getting familiar with the basics of SPFx. Next, you'll discover the toolchain for creating production-ready solutions that can be easily deployed manually or fully automated throughout your target Microsoft Office 365 tenants. As you progress, the chapters will demonstrate how to configure and use Visual Studio Code, the de facto development environment for SPFx-based solutions. Toward the concluding sections, you'll gain useful insights into packaging and deploying your code efficiently. In addition to this, you'll focus on effectively troubleshooting and debugging your code in an environment where business applications run on the client side instead of the server side. By the end of this book, you will have gained the expertise you need to design and manage SharePoint Framework-based solutions in SharePoint Online and SharePoint 2016. This book is for current SharePoint developers, or anyone who is just getting started with SharePoint development. Basic web development programming knowledge such as JavaScript and CSS, and familiarity using and managing SharePoint-based collaboration sites are a must.