Overview of SharePoint Framework (SPFx) for Beginners
SharePoint Framework (SPFx) is a new option for developing SharePoint solutions. SharePoint uses modern open-source toolchain, Node-based development, TypeScript, and so on, that are used in SharePoint on-premise and Office 365 (SharePoint Online) development. SPFx is a page and web part model which works very well with SharePoint objects.
Why SharePoint Framework? The question that arises here is — Why SharePoint Framework?
We have various SharePoint Development methods. Why do you need yet another way of development for SharePoint? So, as we know that in the starting days of SharePoint development, there were features; XML files, however with time, these types of solutions didn’t work well in the cloud in terms of scaling where multiple tenants run side-by-side. So, there are two main SharePoint Framework (SPFx) Development models that we generally use, that is, JavaScript injection and SharePoint Add-in model. Following are their pros and cons:
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