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.

View More author details

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

Why subscribe?

28. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exploring SPFx capabilities

SPFx is not only about SharePoint anymore and offers a lot of capabilities beyond it, for instance, for other tools in the Microsoft 365 suite.

Depending on whether you work with the cloud or on-premises, possibilities won’t be the same due to technical limitations.

Enumerating differences between SharePoint Online and SharePoint On-Premises

SPFx lets you customize parts or integrate within the default SharePoint UI experience. It can be used both with SharePoint Online and SharePoint On-Premises. However, with the on-premises products, the maximum version of SPFx you can use is 1.4.1 for SharePoint Server 2019 and 1.5.0 for SharePoint Server Subscription Edition. For SharePoint Server 2016 SP2, the maximum version is 1.1.0. It means you are limited to the following solution types with on-premises products: