The most straightforward example to make you familiar with how to create a custom SPFx Yeoman generator is to use Yarn instead of NPM as your default package manager. The approach to change the default package manager is simple, and many people already use it as there default package managing solution.
So, instead of adding the ‘–skip-install’ option whenever you start a new project just add this option to a generator.
The first step is, as always, to create a new NPM package.
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.
The modern experience is responsive by default, but it doesn’t mean that your web part will be. Especially with the new team sites and communication sites, the behaviour of web parts is as tricky as it ever was. Office UI Fabric doesn’t help you to achieve a significant user experience because it is out of their scope and offers only smaller components or full-page scoped methods, but nothing in between as needed as in web parts.
The surrounding design of a web part, for example, is defined by Office UI Fabric and even the grid system is provided by that toolkit.
When you write a web part, you might worry more about how the same web part behaves in different containers already defined by the overall page design in SharePoint.
Time to show you a trick how this container pages optimisation is possible in the SharePoint Framework and show the basics.
I guess I showed in some of my recent blog posts that it is possible to test themed web parts during development. This theme testing is currently not possible in the local workbench, but it is possible on the one available on Office 365. Let me show in this post how I did and do and in which problem might occur to your web parts too.
On the 11.11.2017 the first SharePoint Saturday will happen at the Microsoft Headquarters in Vienna. I’m pretty excited to announce that the registration is now open.
To see the lineup and program, you will find a complete listing of the sessions on our home page.
To keep up-to-date you can follow our twitter account (@spsvie) or join our Facebook Page.
Join our first SharePoint Saturday in Vienna and I hope to see you in November!
In Office 365 there is a great mechanism that allows you to implement a corporate wide branding on the suite bar. The customer can apply their logo and their corporate colors there.
On Monday I thought to myself what if I can make the suite bar less distracting than it is. The solid black and blue combination draw a lot of attention on every load while browsing the various portals and applications.
I customized my suite bar in the admin center to have a white background with the logo in the center of the page. All content pages in Office 365 so the white background, I thought, will seamlessly integrate the ribbon on the page instead of standing out.
DEPPRECATED This blog post is outdated please implement the new version of this feature see: How to make CSS Variables work in SPFx web parts.
While Waldek Mastykarz and I were working on a new project, we ask ourselves what it needs to create the web part corresponding to the current site theme colors.
After a small research, we found the solution for that.
I’m looking forward to next weeks TUGA IT conference in Portugal. I’m pretty honoured and excited and it will be the first time I visit Portugal at all.
During this conference, I will hold a full day branding workshop gives you an insight into modern web design and development covering the following topics.
I believe one on the most used front end tools in the web development world is out there is Moustache or Handlebars. It is easy to use; you can write native HTML and compelling too.
In the SharePoint world, many web parts directly show data on the page, and therefore this is the right weapon of choice to get fast going.
Right after the first version of SPFx become public available, I created a ticket in GitHub on how to use this front end tool. With the RC0 drop of the framework, a new functionality has become available that allows you to embed Handlebars through a so-called webpack loader. I was pretty excited when Pat Miller tweeted me about this.
Here is how to extend WebPack configuration in #spfx RC0 – https://t.co/UEBIe6zoHj . I think @StfBauer was asking about this a while ago.
— Pat Miller (@PatMill_MSFT) January 13, 2017
Let me show and explain what steps are required to make use of it in your next project.