Modern Options for Customizing SharePoint Online

So far, we’ve compared SharePoint classic with modern and have seen that the move to the cloud has changed the approaches to customization and development that have worked in on-premises farms. We may see it as a limitation placed on code since our sites are hosted on shared servers in the cloud.

Another perspective is that SharePoint Online has moved to an out-of-the-box-first mindset. It’s a productivity tool just like Word or PowerPoint rather than a development platform that must be customized to be useful. In any event, we can be assured that SharePoint Online is in a perpetually changing, evergreen state. The fewer customizations we add, the fewer changes we have to make when something breaks due to an unanticipated change in the underlying platform.

With that as our mindset, there may still be instances where we need to implement supported customization, organizational branding, or a function that doesn’...