Office Servers and Services MVP / Office 365 & Azure Development
Version 1.5.0 of the SharePoint Framework React Controls (@spfx/spfx-controls-react) has been released. This is an open source library that shares a set of reusable React controls, which can be used in your SharePoint Framework solutions. This release includes the following changes: New control(s) New PeoplePicker control added #19 Enhancements Added properties to the TaxonomyPicker to...
Version 1.7.0 of the SharePoint Framework Property Controls (@spfx/spfx-property-controls) has been released. This is a open source library that shares a set of reusable property pane controls, which can be used in your SharePoint Framework solutions. This release includes the following changes: Enhancements Add npm postinstall script to automatically add the localization config #64 Add...
Back in April 2017, I wrote about how you could write unit tests for SharePoint Framework components. This was created by a combination of the dependencies provides by SharePoint Framework itself and enzyme (JavaScript Testing utilities for React). Info: you can read more about writing unit tests for SharePoint Framework components here: Writing unit tests...
Automating your builds and releases for SharePoint Framework is easy to achieve in Visual Studio Team Services. In the past, I have written how you can achieve it by using custom Gulp tasks or using the Office 365 CLI. One thing both solutions have in common is that they are taking 5-10 minutes to complete....
For a long time, you were not able to remotely debug your SharePoint Framework solutions running in Microsoft Edge with Visual Studio Code. This was due to limitations of the Debugger for Edge and the Microsoft Edge developer tools. The only possibility if you wanted to debug in Visual Studio Code, was to use Chrome...
Automating installation/deployment processes of any type of solutions is so great, and in Visual Studio Team Services you can do this by a task-driven process. For many of the SharePoint Solutions I create, I have an automated CI/CD process behind the scenes running. So that once my code is ready, it will automatically deploy to...
