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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

Working with files

As you might recall, VS Code works by working with files and folders directly, as they are located on your workstation. Thus it is up to you, as a developer, to choose the base path for your projects. Each project will be a directory underneath your base path. A typical development file hierarchy could be as follows:

  • Basepath: C:\Projects\
  • Intranet-project: C:\Projects\Intranet
  • Extranet-project: C:\Projects\Extranet

You can now select File | Open Folder in VS Code to select C:\Projects\Intranet as your working folder if you're working on that particular project.

As you'll see, since the folder is still empty, we just get a placeholder for the INTRANET folder. You can add a new file by clicking the small icon with a green plus-icon.

We'll add a simple HTML file, called hello.html. VS Code recognizes this is a file for HTML content, and provides you with IntelliSense supports automatically in the editor.

If we add a second file, such as a text file...

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