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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

Step 3 - Installing Yeoman and Gulp

The next step is to use npm to install two important tools, Yeoman and Gulp, to our SharePoint Framework development environment. This is done with two commands in Command Prompt or PowerShell:

    npm install -g yo
npm install -g gulp

When you are installing packages with npm, you can use the lower-case letter i instead of install. Also, you can install multiple packages in a single line, such as yo (for Yeoman) and gulp:

    npm i -g yo gulp 

As you can see, npm will also install other packages, based on the dependencies of the packages we are installing. Warnings are common and, for now, we can safely ignore them:

The installation will take a while as npm is going to download all the necessary packages and their dependencies during installation. When this is done, you will see something like this:

If something goes wrong, you can uninstall packages using npm as well; simply replace the install command with uninstall to do that. In npm, the...

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