Office Development MVP / Office 365 & Azure Development
Last year I already wrote an article about how you could implement visual UI tests for your SharePoint solutions by using Puppeteer in combination with Jest. I still use these tools for setting up various UI tests in our products, but a couple of months ago, a tool called Cypress caught my attention.
WHAT A YEAR! This year was a personal rollercoaster. I would have never thought 2019 would be so hard, fun, crazy, and filled with a lot of life lessons.
Rollercoaster What happened in 2019? Initially, I told myself to do less travel in 2019, only attend a couple of events and focus a bit more on product development, family, and hobbies.
On SharePoint modern pages, you can set the focal point of the header image. Having this kind of control is excellent for creating compelling pages.
Header image with focal point What if you also want to make use of the same focal point in your roll-ups? Luckily this is also possible, and it depends a bit on how you retrieve the data.
Version 1.16.0 of the SharePoint Framework React Controls (@pnp/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:
Enhancements
FilePicker: Fixes for OneDrive CORS issues #407 ListItemPicker: added new control property filter #392 allowing to use context from any type of SPFx extensions: #419 Placeholder: remove unused and vendor specific CSS #426 Fixes
A couple of months ago, I moved a couple of my projects to make use of the library component in SharePoint Framework. The library component allows you to share common logic between your projects. Sharing code through your projects is having many benefits like smaller bundle sizes, more comfortable to fix bugs, no code duplication, …
