Finally, we upgraded SASS to a new version of SASS, which brings tons of changes to your development. It started in SharePoint Framework version 1.15, and the transition is now completed in 1.16.1. While importing 3rd party CSS via ‘@import’ is still possible, this option will be lost at some point.
Let me explain what other options you have to import 3rd party CSS to your web parts or extension CSS.[Read more]
Colour palettes are a mystery in and of itself. Fluent Design, Material Design, Tailwind or even Bootstrap have them, and the colours have colour labels. I always wondered where these numbers are coming from until I recently had enlightenment.[Read more]
Many developers in the past have use Frameworks such as Bootstrap or Zurb’s Foundation, and from a pure developer perspective, it is clear why to use them. There is yet Office UI Fabric around, but with every new framework, you need to learn those frameworks specifics.
Because it is and was so famous for the use of SharePoint web parts you might like to update some of your existing web parts to the modern experience. Whatever the reason is might by you use it; there are some things to know before such framework can be embedded safely in SharePoint Framework projects.
In the first part of this series I showed why Office UI Fabric might not be suitable for every of your projects. Now I like to dig a little bit deeper into the architecture and ideas behind Office UI Fabric. In addition I will give you my personal guidance on using it.
First, let’s take a closer look at the naming convention implemented with Office UI Fabric.
Ever wondered what is defined in the corev15.css? Let’s take a little look to some statistics of this style sheet. Another thing I like to consider how you change the style sheets when additional frameworks such as bootstrap will be applied to SharePoint. Plus, we will take a look how SharePoint Style Sheets will be changed when an branding will be added based on Bootstrap.