PnP SharePoint Framework React controls v1.16.0 released

December 16, 2019

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

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Why it is important to keep the version in sync when using the library component in SharePoint Framework

November 19, 2019

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, …

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PnP SharePoint Framework React controls v1.15.0 released

October 14, 2019

Version 1.15.0 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: New control(s) FilePicker: New control added to the library #366 GridLayout: New control added to the library #350 Carousel: New control added to the library #227 Enhancements

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Aborting your fetch requests in your SharePoint Framework extensions during navigation events

September 20, 2019

Once again an article about navigation events. This time it has nothing to do with checks you need to implement to know when or to which page you navigated. This time it is about canceling/aborting API calls which your browser performs while navigating to another page. Most likely you can cancel these calls because they do no longer matter for the current page.

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Speed up SharePoint Framework builds with WSL 2

September 18, 2019

SharePoint Framework builds very fast on new projects, but once you start adding more components or functionality, the builds quickly get slower. In our codebase, we tried to split up projects as much as possible, so that fewer components need to be built during your development cycle. As much as it helps with some projects, we still have two slow projects.

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Handling page creation events in your SPFx application customizer

September 11, 2019

Some time ago I wrote about things to check in your SharePoint Framework application customizer for making sure it behaves correctly on navigation events. This included checks to see if you navigated to another page, different hub site and site with another language. In most cases, these are the checks that you want to put in place, to make sure that your application customizer renders the right data after a navigation event.

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