Summary and planning document
In this chapter, we’ve explored the best practices for customizing SharePoint Online. JSON has played a major role in how we can express site templates for reusability, site themes for colorful branding, and formatting list views and columns in creative and compelling ways. We saw how the open source patterns and practices community is supporting the efforts of developers by creating its own templating engine and useful search web parts. Finally, we explored the options for SharePoint custom development that leverage SPFx.
In the next chapter, we’ll turn our attention to the role that M365 Groups play in modern SharePoint and as a foundational concept for collaboration and security in Microsoft 365.
Customization and custom development can take much effort and expense, but if done well, they can extend the usability and capability of an already solid platform. Let’s look at some questions to ask when compiling the customizations...
