We are excited to announce Release Candidate (RC) of the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) 1.15 – with updates for Viva Connections, Microsoft Teams, and SharePoint Online experiences. We are working on getting the General Availability (GA) version published within mid-June 2022. Our objective with the public previews and release candidates is for providing more insights on the upcoming features and to provide our ecosystem an option to directly influence on the released capabilities. Your feedback is more than welcome.

You can find full list of details from the following documentation:

• SharePoint Framework 1.15 preview release notes

Key features in 1.15 release

Key changes and updates in this preview release are as follows:

• New SPFx customizers for list add and edit list / library forms
  • Gives you an option to associate custom new, edit and view forms at content type level for new items
  • Tutorial coming up soon, please check the associated video for guidance until that is available
• Microsoft Graph JavaScript SDK v3 support
• TypeScript v4.5 support
• SPFx solutions now support ESLint 8.3.0 instead of deprecated TSLint
• Numerous other improvements and adjustments based on the reported issues by customers and partners
  • If you ran into any issues, please use Premier Support if that’s an option or report your issues at https://aka.ms/spfx-issues

Here’s quick video from the Microsoft 365 Platform Community call demonstrating the usage of the new list form customizer component type. We will demo the new features also in upcoming calls.

Installing SharePoint Framework 1.15 Release Candidate

You can install SharePoint Framework 1.15 Release Candidate (RC) by using following command – which will always install the latest preview packages.

npm install @microsoft/generator-sharepoint@next --global

What’s next?

We are looking into releasing version 1.15 to production this month and then move forward with the following items in the roadmap.

• General Availability of 1.15 in June 2022
• First preview of 1.16 in July 2022
  • Numerous improvements on the Viva Connections Card extensibility
  • Bot Framework driven Viva Cards – as additional option for Viva Card handling
  • Node v16.x support – unfortunately delayed to 1.16 due technical dependencies on the SharePoint UX
  • Enable Service Principal Registration in app acquisition flow
• Plan is to have quarterly releases, so two releases still by end of 2022
• Much much much more across Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva and SharePoint in the roadmap… 🚀

Please keep the feedback coming and let us know if you find any issues. If you have ideas on the existing feature improvements or adding new capabilities, please start a discussion with us.

What is SharePoint Framework?

SharePoint Framework is widely used extensibility in Microsoft 365 with tens of millions of end users each month for the custom components built by 3rd party developers for Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva and SharePoint. It’s the easiest way to build enterprise extensibility for Microsoft 365 and it’s taken advantage by thousands of partners and customers on building custom experiences for end users.

Key capabilities of the SharePoint Framework for Microsoft 365 are following:

• Content Driven Applications – SharePoint Framework can be used to build content driven applications on surfacing information easily from Microsoft 365 with Microsoft Graph or to integrate with externally hosted content.
• Automatic Single Sign On – SharePoint Framework components have automatic and seamless SSO included for all platforms they are hosted. No specific consents needed from Microsoft 365 end users.
• Automatic hosting – SharePoint Framework components are automatically hosted in SharePoint without additional maintenance or operational costs.
• Industry standard tooling – SharePoint Framework is using standard web stack tooling with node, npm, TypeScript and any JavaScript framework of your preference. Just standard web skills needed, no special skills needed. Anyone can do this.

SharePoint Framework has also made the permission and token management for accessing the data in Microsoft 365 easy. You will be using the awesome Microsoft Graph APIs for accessing business data and you can further simplify the development of SharePoint Framework components by taking advantage of the Microsoft Graph Toolkit, which provides reusable controls with data connectivity to Microsoft Graph.

Additional resources and support

• • Please report any issues on the public preview using following issue list – https://aka.ms/spfx-issues
    • We have engineering people monitoring any incoming issues and helping you to get unblocked or getting your questions answered
  • Overview of the SharePoint Framework
  • Getting started with SharePoint Framework
  • Build for Microsoft Teams using SharePoint Framework
  • Overview of Viva Connections Extensibility
  • Microsoft Learn – Extend Microsoft Viva Connections
  • Microsoft Learn – Extend Microsoft SharePoint – Associate
  • CLI for Microsoft 365 – SharePoint Framework Upgrade tooling from previous versions to latest
  • SharePoint Framework web part samples

If you are looking into building experiences for Microsoft 365, we strongly recommend on joining our community calls and other Microsoft 365 Platform Community (PnP) activities. More details from https://aka.ms/m365/community.

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