Latest SharePoint Framework (SPFx) topics

It’s been a while since I checked in and shared an update on the latest with my course, Mastering the SharePoint Framework. But there’s no better time than now! Learn what’s new in this month’s refresh of the first two chapters in the Fundamentals bundle!

Microsoft introduced the tenant app catalog many years ago way for users to install, deploy, and acquire apps within their SharePoint Online environment. Unfortunately, it’s become quite dated and not kept up with the needs and demands of the product… until now! In this post, I’ll take a look at what Microsoft is rolling out to your SharePoint Online tenants with a new modern experience, a better story for acquiring, requesting, and approving apps from the app store and more. In fact, we’re getting an idea of what’s coming in the future.

In this SharePoint Framework (SPFx) quick tip, I want to focus on some properties in a web part’s manifest file that many people aren’t familiar with.

Microsoft release the first beta of the SharePoint Framework v1.15 on March 8, 2022. In this post I’ll dig in to see what’s in it!

In this post, I’ll give you an update on where we are with popular frameworks and tools developers use in the client-side SharePoint development world.

How do you properly initialize your component? Should you use the object’s constructor, or the onInit() method? You should always use the onInit() method if your initialization process needs anything in the SharePoint Framework API or in the current page’s context. Otherwise, you can safely use the constructor in your component.

Since the SharePoint Framework initial v1 release, I’ve seen questions coming up about a concept that confuses developers. This is a simple concept, one that could have been avoided with a better naming decision many years ago. In this post, I’m going to attempt to clear it up.

In this post, I’ll summarize what you can find, and share some additional details I found after spending some time picking apart this latest release of SPFx.

This is a story about a mea culpa. You should have been installing the gulp-cli package globally (as the docs show), not gulp globally. To better understand why, keep reading.

This module will introduce you to leveraging your SharePoint Framework customizations in Microsoft Teams.

In this post, learn how to set up a development development environment to create SPFx projects for all SharePoint deployments.

These days, all of Microsoft’s updates about the SPFx, or community content have one thing in common: they ignore SharePoint Server 2016. Not this post!

These days, all of Microsoft’s updates about the SPFx, or community content have one thing in common: they ignore SharePoint Server SE. Not this post!

These days, all of Microsoft’s updates about the SPFx, or community content have one thing in common: they ignore SharePoint Server 2019. Not this post!

Join me, May 9-13 in Seattle for the 365 EduCon (SPFest) conference! I’m presenting a full day workshop & sessions for Microsoft 365 & Azure pro developers!

New to SPFx? Check out our newest FREE email course to quickly get up to speed, learn what you can build, where you can use it, and what a ‘day in the life’ of a SharePoint Framework developer is like!

A few years ago, React introduced the React Profiler to React v16.5 in the React DevTools plugin available for Chromium browsers (Chrome & CrEdge) and Firefox. Developers can use the Profiler API to collect timing information about each component that’s rendered in order to identify performance bottlenecks in React applications. For those of us creating React apps in SharePoint Framework (SPFx) solutions, this is a great resource for building well performing apps for your customers!

You’ve hit a roadblock on your SPFx project & have a question. What options do you have? In this post, I’ll share a few options available to you.

In this post, I want to update you on some of the changes Microsoft has recently made related to the exam & offer guidance if you’re planning to take the exam soon. I’ll also answer a few common questions that keep coming up. In this post, learn about the changes #Microsoft made related to the #MS-600 exam, get guidance if you’re planning to take the exam soon, & get answers to common questions that keep coming up.

In this post, learn what’s new with our flagship course: Mastering SPFx! The Starter bundle is completely refreshed, lesson notes are improved, and we added clickable resources within lesson videos!

Hey developers! Got 15 minutes a day for the next week? Learn what the SharePoint Framework is, what you can build, & what the development experience is like! Get this FREE course delivered daily straight to your inbox!

In this post, I want to tell you about some of this modernization work I’ve been doing and how you can apply it to your SPFx projects!

Ever run into the random error “[tslint] Failed to load ../tslint.json” when you can clearly see it in your project? If so, then this post is for you!

Earlier today, I updated our Azure Pipelines Templates for SharePoint Framework projects. This is mostly a modernization update to the templates for developers using our templates to implement a CI/CD process for their SharePoint Framework (SPFx) projects using Azure DevOps Pipelines.

Late last week, I wrapped up refreshing the student code downloads for the Fundamentals & Ultimate bundles of my Mastering the SharePoint Framework course to SPFx v1.12.1, built from scratch + bonus demo in the React chapter showing how to use React Hooks!

In this post, I’ll summarize what you can find, and share some additional details I found after spending some time picking apart this latest release of SPFx.

hTWOo is a pure HTML & CSS implementation of Microsoft’s Fluent Design, without the baggage & headaches of Office UI Fabric or Fluent UI.

I’m excited to announce what’s in the latest refresh of my MS-600 exam prep course! New content, over 300 practice test questions and more!

Just five (5) days after the release of SPFx v1.12, Microsoft deprecated and pulled it. In this post I’ll explain why, and how you can roll back your environment and projects if you were an early adopter.

This week, Microsoft released v1.12 of the SharePoint Framework (SPFx). In this post, I’ll summarize what you can find, and share some additional details I found after spending some time picking apart this latest release. A new SharePoint Framework Yeoman generator has been published by OfficeDev: 1.12.0 #SPFx Office365 — Voitanos (@voitanos) March 16, 2021 Danger: SharePoint Framework v1.12 deprecated - Do NOT Install Just five (5) days after the release of SPFx v1.

SharePoint Framework (SPFx) projects are written in TypeScript. For a while, developers were stuck using the version of TypeScript specified by Microsoft with each SPFx release. In the SPFx v1.8 release, the version of TypeScript was decoupled from the project so that now you can use any version you like, provided there’s a supported option. In this post, I’ll explain how this works, what versions of TypeScript you can use and how to implement it in your project.

As we near the end of 2020, I wanted to take a look at where we are with respect to the State of SharePoint Client-Side Development. In this post, I’ll give you an update on where we are with popular frameworks and tools developers use in the client-side SharePoint development world.

SharePoint is an extensible platform you can customize and extend with the SharePoint Framework and multiple APIs available to developers. In this module, developers learn what customizations and extensibility points are available to them with the SharePoint Framework, and determine if it’s right for you.

It’s been quite a different year for all of us. Here in the United States, we celebrate Thanksgiving late in November & are usually together with our extended families. Unfortunately, it won’t be the same this year in my family because like so many other households, we’re avoiding the big gathering. But, I’m thankful my family has remained safe & healthy thus far… and I hope yours has as well.

Join me for a half-day virtual workshop at the Microsoft 365 Collaboration Conference to get up to speed on the SharePoint Framework.

In early September 2017, I announced Voitanos’ first course to be published. A little over three years later, I’m excited to share with you today the news on my next course that’s currently in the works!

Have you ever wanted to know how the SharePoint Framework works? How do your components get added to the page? What’s with that extra manifest file? In this post, I’ll answer all those questions!

When evaluating the SharePoint Framework, you need to determine not just what you can do, but if your SharePoint environment supports specific customizations and where you can apply those customizations.

How long has the SharePoint Framework been around? When was it first released? What were some of the major milestones in the history of the SPFx? It’s all here!

As SharePoint evolved over time into the product we have today, Microsoft iterated over development models until they found one that worked for both developers & Microsoft alike.

Ever wondered what the SharePoint Framework is? Ever asked yourself “what can I build with the SharePoint Framework?” You’re in luck because that’s what this comprehensive article answers! This article assumes you don’t have to have any prior knowledge or experience with the SharePoint Framework.

This post introduces our post series “SharePoint Framework Five Ws Answered”. In this series, Andrew Connell answers the classic “five-W” questions developers have for the SharePoint Framework: what, why, when, who, where and how.

In this course, another by me at Voitanos, you’ll get prepared to pass the MS-600 exam, the only Microsoft 365: Developer Associate certification prerequisite - includes 300+ practice questions!

This year’s pandemic has upended the technical conferences so many rely on for training and learning new skill sets. But all is not lost, there’s always another way! I’ve been working with the great folks at SharePoint Fest to put together a virtual workshop solution! Are you a SharePoint Framework developer? If you’re looking to level-up your SharePoint Framework skills for the enterprise, this workshop is for you! Join me on September 15, 2020 for an interactive & knowledge packed workshop to learn how you can add automated testing, and deployment to your SharePoint Framework solutions using Azure Multistage Pipelines or GitHub Actions!

Last September, I shared what items were on my wish list for the SharePoint Framework. The response from that post surprised me a bit… I didn’t expect a healthy discussion to start up in the comments and on social media. It’s been nine months since that post and I thought it was time for another installment - it’s the first official weeks of summer 2020, so it’s the time for another one!

Today marks a big milestone. Sprint 19 is complete and published - it contains the final two chapters published in my Mastering the SharePoint Framework Ultimate bundle! The first of these chapters, Sharing Code between SharePoint Framework Solutions, explains and demonstrates how to use either SPFx library components or NPM packages to share code across SPFx projects. The other chapter, Property Panes for Client-Side Web Parts: Create Property Controls, demonstrates how to create custom property pane controls for web part projects.

Today I published a new chapter to the Ultimate bundle of my Mastering the SharePoint Framework course. This new chapter, DevOps: Monitoring & Telemetry with Azure Application Insights, is immediately available to all existing Ultimate bundle subscribers! Info: DevOps: Monitoring & Telemetry with Azure Application Insights Development teams and organizations are always looking for ways to automate, streamline, and improve processes related to building software. SharePoint Framework development teams are no different.

Yesterday I published a new chapter to the Ultimate bundle of my Mastering the SharePoint Framework course. This new chapter, DevOps: CI/CD with GitHub Actions & Azure Pipelines, is immediately available to all existing Ultimate bundle subscribers! Info: DevOps: CI/CD with GitHub Actions & Azure Pipelines Development teams and organizations are always looking for ways to automate, streamline, and improve processes related to building software. SharePoint Framework development teams are no different.

On Wednesday, April 22, I presented the webinar Get Certified! Overview of the MS-600 exam & Microsoft 365 Developer Associate Certification with Rencore & Waldek Mastykarz. Rencore has posted the recording of the webinar as well as a link to the slides if you weren’t able to join us live or you want to re-watch it. Click here to access the recording. In that webinar I hinted there was more coming - I’m excited to share with you a new webinar series I’m hosting starting on May 5th!

After years of galactic chaos, SharePoint developers have finally realized the importance of building their SharePoint solutions with SPFx. With the Force awakened, the SharePoint community seeks solace with their PnP masters! Join me on May 4th with Elio Struyf, Waldek Mastykarz, and Vesa Juvonen, for a 3.5 hour SharePoint Framework mini-summit and May the 4th be with you!