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SharePoint Development with the SharePoint Framework

You're reading from   SharePoint Development with the SharePoint Framework Design and implement state-of-the-art customizations for SharePoint

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787121430
Length 386 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jussi Roine Jussi Roine
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Olli Jääskeläinen Olli Jääskeläinen
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Preface 1. Introducing SharePoint Online for Developers FREE CHAPTER 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

Fabric React support

There are a few caveats you should be aware of when building SharePoint Framework solutions with Office UI Fabric. First, note that Fabric React doesn't support older IE versions, such as 9 and 10, so that is something you need to take into the consideration if you are running clients with an old browser base. The second caveat is a bit more complicated.

Microsoft is not done with Office UI Fabric and Fabric React, so styles and components will evolve. In practice, this means that in order to remain supported, you will need to ensure the following:

  • SharePoint Framework web parts should have an explicit dependency to version 2.0 of Fabric React
  • Fabric React components needs to be statically linked, which means that Fabric React components are bundled to your web part, and should the components change, it is not reflected in your web parts

The following are the differences between static and dynamic linking:

// static  
import { Button } from 'office-ui...
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