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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

React is declarative

When we use React, we have an option to use JSX, which gives us a markup-style syntax, which is then compiled to procedural JavaScript code. JSX stands for Syntax Extensions for JavaScript. Consider the following statement:

const helloElement = <h3>Hello, {user.name}</h3>; 

It is not pure JavaScript, nor is it pure HTML--it is something in between. It definitely mixes JavaScript and HTML in a very powerful and expressive way. In JSX, you wrap JavaScript inside the XML style markup using curly braces, and you can close your tag with />, as follows:

const userPicture = <img src="{user.imageUrl}"/>;  

A React element can have only one root element, but it can have nested elements. When you write JSX, there are some differences to it from HTML; for example, in the attribute names, you can't use attribute class (because it is a reserved name in ECMAScript 6), but, instead, you need to use className, and the attribute names are always...

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