The SharePoint REST API Explorer website received a major overhaul with a new modern interface. Browse 60k+ endpoints, 2.4k+ entities, explore types with cross-references, track API changes monthly, and search everything with a command palette. Let's take a look at what's new.
In June 2020, a .NET Standard version of SharePoint CSOM was released. It means that now we can build projects for SharePoint, that target multiple platforms. At the beginning of 2021, a .NET Standard version of PnP-Sites-Core was also released (with a brand new name PnP.Framework and an updated codebase). However, there are some limitations in the .NET...
Azure Key Vault simplifies a lot of things when it comes to secrets, passwords, certificate management. There are a lot of different ways of using it for different apps or services. In this post I'm going to cover below scenario: - we have a service, running in the background, which connects to SharePoint API and performs some operations. As a good example,....
I had a need to hide all documents, which were checked out by users. With help of Column Formatting. When you check out documents, SharePoint sets a special field called CheckoutUser to be equal to a person, who checked out the document. The idea is to check if this field is null and hide a row in a view. However, the idea didn't work for some reason. The...
The year 2020 is over and once again it's time to perform regular analysis of data at sharepoint.stackexchange. This is the fourth edition of such an analysis. - Power BI with Power BI Desktop - super cool tools for data analysis. If you don't have experience with Power BI, it's worth trying to see what is possible. When I first tried it a few years ago I...
A few months ago I created a tool, which speeds up a regular "gulp serve" process. In a nutshell, it uses a separate webpack based build. Please read this post to learn more. Since the initial release, I've fixed a few good things and added new features. The most awaited is library components support. Read further to find out how to use spfx-fast-serve with....
In August 2019 SharePoint Framework 1.9.x was released. Among different changes also support for Webpack 4 was introduced. What does it mean for us? It means slightly improved build speed, support for a wide range of plugins and better tree-shaking. What is webpack tree-shaking exactly? In simple words, webpack is smart enough to automatically remove "dead.....
- Intro - CSS in JS - CSS in JS with SharePoint Framework - Install the library - Write your styles in TypeScript - Apply class names to React component - What about theming? - Conclusion A very common way of styling your SharePoint Framework React components is through the css (to be precise sass, which eventually compiles to css). Actually, SharePoint...
A few months ago I wrote an article about SharePoint Framework build performance - SPFx overclockers or how to significantly improve your SharePoint Framework build performance. I've tried to reduce the amount of time the "gulp serve" command uses to re-build your code and to finally refresh a browser. I used different optimization technics for that purpose....
SharePoint Framework 1.9 introduced support for React 16.8+. While only a minor part of the version was changed (16.7 -> 16.8), it means a lot. It means that you can use the full power of React hooks. But should you? Obviously, the answer is yes, because React hooks introduce a lot of useful features, including: - reuse stateful logic across your many React....