What still works and what doesn’t
I want to focus on the things we can and should be doing in this chapter rather than compiling an epitaph of lost functionality. However, this first section will help us understand what tools and approaches that we’ve relied on for on-premises and prior versions of SharePoint in the past are still viable today. Power Platform, a modern tool that offers low-code/no-code capabilities, can give us compelling alternatives to traditional development. We will discuss its role in depth in Chapter 6.
Perhaps we should start by making a distinction between two approaches for creating compelling and customized SharePoint Online sites. On one hand, we have what we’ll refer to as customizations. These are not out-of-the-box properties per se and will require some declarative code such as JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) to be functional, but nothing must be compiled or deployed. Often, there are spots built into the existing UI where these...
