You're reading from Practical SharePoint Framework (SPFx) Development Build modern, scalable, and efficient business solutions for SharePoint and Microsoft 365

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2025

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835466780

Length 442 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

SharePoint Framework

Concepts

SharePoint Development

Authors (2):

Franck Cornu

Anoop T.

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Table of Contents (29) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Getting Started with the SharePoint Framework FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: Introducing Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online for Developers

3. Chapter 2: Ecosystem and Building Blocks around the SharePoint Framework

4. Chapter 3: Your First Steps with the SharePoint Framework

5. Chapter 4: Packt Product Management Solution: A Practical Use Case

6. Part 2: Building Web Parts with the SharePoint Framework

7. Chapter 5: Building a SharePoint Web Part

8. Chapter 6: Working with the Property Pane

9. Chapter 7: Connecting to Other Web Parts

10. Chapter 8: Deploying a SharePoint Web Part

11. Part 3: Building Extensions with the SharePoint Framework

12. Chapter 9: Building a Form Customizer

13. Chapter 10: Building an Application Customizer

14. Chapter 11: Building a Field Customizer

15. Chapter 12: Building a ListView Command Set

16. Chapter 13: Building a Search Query Modifier

17. Chapter 14: Building an Adaptive Card Extension

18. Chapter 15: Deploying Extensions

19. Part 4: Going Further with the SharePoint Framework

20. Chapter 16: Sharing Your Code Using Library Components

21. Chapter 17: Debugging Your Solution Efficiently

22. Chapter 18: Consuming APIs

23. Chapter 19: Writing Tests with SPFx

24. Chapter 20: Upgrading Your Solutions

25. Chapter 21: Leveraging Community Tools and Libraries

26. Chapter 22: Development Platforms

27. Index

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Building a Form Customizer

In the previous chapter, we saw how to deploy an SPFx web part. A web part is one of multiple elements that we can create with SPFx. In this chapter, we will look into another element of SPFx called extensions – in particular, the Form Customizer.

Some of the concepts in this chapter will be similar or in line with the concepts mentioned in the previous chapters on web parts. In this chapter, you will do the following:

Learn how to create a Form Customizer from scratch using SPFx to meet the functional requirements
Understand the Form Customizer development flow using React and SPFx-provided lifecycle methods
Use Microsoft Graph to interact with SharePoint list items
Learn how to custom render a form that is used to create, view, and edit SharePoint list items