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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Overview of the Microsoft 365 architecture

As mentioned in the previous chapter, Microsoft 365 is a complete suite composed of many different tools under the same roof, and it provides many building blocks. As an SPFx developer, it is important to understand this structure as there is a high probability you’ll have to manipulate these building blocks programmatically in your SPFx solutions. This can be done by either using the Microsoft Graph API, the unified endpoint to access Microsoft 365 data, or the SharePoint REST API, a legacy API used to manipulate SharePoint data only.

In the next sections, we will discuss the architecture of the two main tools commonly used with SPFx: SharePoint Online and Teams.

Understanding the SharePoint logical architecture

Since the very beginning of SharePoint, the logical information architecture hasn’t changed much in SharePoint Online. The same core building blocks still apply (except those managed directly by Microsoft in...