SharePoint Development with the SharePoint Framework: Design and create beautiful solutions using modern development tools for SharePoint Online

by Jussi Roine, Olli Jaaskelainen

Overview

Design and create beautiful solutions using modern development tools for SharePoint Online

About This Book

• Get the best out of the latest Sharepoint Framework and leverage the Sharepoint RESTful and JSOM APIs.
• Develop efficient client side applications with JavaScript injection and Sharepoint Addins.
• Get the best tips and tricks on designing your website flawlessly.

Who This Book Is For

This book targets current SharePoint developers, as well as people starting their journey on SharePoint development. The reader must have basic web development programming knowledge, including JavaScript and CSS. The reader should have familiarity using and managing SharePoint-based collaboration sites.

What You Will Learn

• Understand what the SharePoint Framework is
• Create modern solutions using the new tools, approaches and frameworks
• Learn how to use Visual Studio Code for effective SharePoint development
• Package and deploy your code, using automation as needed
• Work with content and data stored in SharePoint
• Benefit from third party frameworks without having to build your own frameworks
• Debug and troubleshoot your code with ease
• Configure security in your application

In Detail

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.

Style and approach

The approach will be that of a practical tutorial which will take you through every topic using code samples and working examples.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787282377
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	09/29/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	386
File size:	18 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

Jussi Roine started working with SharePoint with the very first version, SharePoint Portal Server 2001 in late 2000. Having a strong infrastructure and development background by then, and also having worked quite a bit on Linux-based solutions, SharePoint fascinated him with its seemingly endless potential and easiness for end users. He continued working with SharePoint through all versions since, including SharePoint Portal Server 2003, MOSS 2007, SharePoint 2010, 2013 and 2016. He also enjoyed working with customers when they started moving beyond on-premises to the early cloud-based offerings on BPOS and Office 365, later in 2011.
He has been a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional since 2014, and a Microsoft Certified Trainer since 2006. In 2012 and 2014 he had the honor of attending the Microsoft Certified Master (later Microsoft Certified Solutions Master) program, which he passed among the very selected few in the world at the time.In 2017 Jussi became a Microsoft Regional Director, a member of 150 world's top technology visionaries chosen for their community leadership and cross-platform expertise.
While providing his clients with solutions, architectures and trusted advisor services for 25 years now, he has also had a chance to dive deeply into Microsoft Azure, which connects and integrates with Office 365 robustly. During his years he has written several books on SharePoint, the Office clients, productivity, flexwork and Microsoft platforms. This book is his first international book aimed for a more diverse audience, and he hope's is that this book will help current and future developers working on the Office 365 platform to more easily provide superior solutions for their clients using SharePoint Framework.

A Microsoft MVP, Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) as well as Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), Olli has been working on the field for over 15 years. He knows the SharePoint inside out, and is currently focusing on building productivity solutions using Office 365. Olli works architect for Sulava and as organizer for Office 365 & SharePoint User Group Finland. He has been giving technical presentations since 2013 in events such as TechDays Finland, European SharePoint Conference, TechTalks Finland, SharePoint Saturdays and Office 365 Engage.

Table of Contents

1. Introducing SharePoint Online for Developers
2. Developing Solutions for SharePoint
3. Getting Started with the SharePoint Framework
4. Building Your First Web Part
5. Using Visual Studio Code and Other Editors
6. Packaging and Deploying Solutions
7. Working with SharePoint Content
8. Working with the Web Part Property Pane
9. Using React and Office UI Fabric React Components
10. Working with Other JavaScript Frameworks
11. Troubleshooting and Debugging SharePoint Framework Solutions
12. SharePoint APIs and Microsoft Graph
13. The Future of SharePoint Customizations