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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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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

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

Handling property field events

By now you've probably seen that typing in values within fields fires off a field event. This is evident in fields that are shown in the web part, as each update to the field text forces an update on the text being displayed.

By changing the Description Field in our sample, the same text is being reflected within the web part canvas on the left:

This is called a reactive mode, and it simply forces the web part to update the user interface whenever the property field values are updated.

An alternative to this is the non-reactive mode, which might be useful in certain scenarios.

Reactive mode is especially useful for text-based data, but might be problematic if a change fires off a chain of events that might be time-consuming. Updating a simple field value would take a longer time if our code insists on updating content after each key click.

As the property pane is in reactive mode by default, changing to the non-reactive mode is simple. All you need...

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