SharePoint Dev Ecosystem \/ SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) January 2018 update is out with a summary of the latest guidance, samples, and solutions from SharePoint engineering or from the community for the community. This article is a summary of all the different areas and topics around SharePoint Dev ecosystem during the past month.<\/p>\n
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SharePoint PnP is a nick-name for SharePoint Dev Ecosystem activities coordinated by SharePoint engineering. SharePoint PnP is community driven open source initiative where Microsoft and external community members are sharing their learning’s around implementation practices for SharePoint and Office 365. Active development and contributions happen in GitHub by providing contributions to the samples, reusable components, and documentation.<\/p>\n
PnP is owned and coordinated by SharePoint engineering, but this is work done by the community for the community. The initiative is currently facilitated by Microsoft, but already at this point, we have multiple community members as part of the PnP Core team (see team details in end of the article) and we are looking to extend the Core team with more community members.<\/p>\n
Notice that since this is open source community initiative, there\u2019s no SLAs for the support for the samples provided through GitHub. Obviously, all officially released components and libraries are under official support from Microsoft. You can use the\u00a0SharePoint Developer group<\/a>\u00a0in the Microsoft Tech Community for providing input and to ask any questions about the existing materials.<\/p>\n Some key statistics around\u00a0SharePoint Developer topics from December 2018<\/p>\n Most viewed articles in the SharePoint Dev documentation<\/a> during December 2018.<\/p>\n Main resources around SharePoint PnP\u00a0and SharePoint development<\/p>\n Agenda for the Tuesday 8th of January 2019 SharePoint Dev Ecosystem \/ Patterns and Practices\u00a0community call<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a08 AM PST \/ 5 PM CEST:<\/p>\n Monthly community call will get recorded and release to\u00a0PnP YouTube channel<\/a>\u00a0typically within 24 hours after the recording is ended. If you have any questions, comments or feedback, please participate in our discussions in the\u00a0Microsoft Tech Community<\/a>\u00a0under\u00a0SharePoint developer group<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here are the latest blog posts and announcements around SharePoint development topics from developer.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sharepoint\/blogs<\/a><\/p>\n SharePoint Dev community has 3 different recurrent community calls, which you can choose to participate based on your interest and availability. All calls are recorded and published in the SharePoint Dev YouTube channel<\/a> typically within the following 24 hours after the call. You can find a detailed agenda and links to specific covered topics on blog post articles at the SharePoint developer blog<\/a> when the videos are published.<\/p>\n If you are interested in doing a live demo of your solution or sample in these calls, please do reach out to the PnP Core Team members (contacts later in this post). These are great opportunities to gain visibility for example for existing MVPs, for community members who would like to be MVPs in the future or any community member who’d like to share some of their learnings.<\/p>\n There are quite a few different GitHub repositories under the SharePoint brand since we wanted to ensure that you can easily find and reuse what’s relevant to you. We do also combine multiple solutions to one repository so that you can more easily sync and get the latest changes to our released guidance and samples.<\/p>\n PnP specific repositories – solution designs and tooling<\/p>\n Repositories in the GitHub PnP organization<\/p>\n Following statements apply across all of the PnP samples and solutions, including samples, core component(s) and solutions, like\u00a0SharePoint Starter Kit.<\/p>\n SharePoint Starter Kit<\/a>\u00a0demonstrates how to extend out of the box modern experiences in the SharePoint. It demonstrates multiple different techniques and uses different patterns and practices to build end-to-end\u00a0demonstration solution which can be provisioned to any\u00a0Office 365 tenant. It contains for example following capabilities, which you can learn from or use them as your reference:<\/p>\n Following are the key changes in the Starter Kit since\u00a0the previous monthly summary<\/p>\n We do welcome contributions on this open-source community project.<\/p>\n SharePoint Online is continuously evolving and improving, which is a great thing for you as a consumer of the service. One of the key improvements is the availability of modern sites, which are modern Office 365 group-connected team sites or communication sites, combined with improved functionality that can be consumed from a beautiful modern user interface. There are however plenty of customers who have already existing content in the classic sites and in classic pages, which would be great to get moved on the modern experience. This is where the open-source modernization tooling will help you.<\/p>\n Following are the key changes in modernization tooling and guidance since the last monthly summary<\/p>\n These are samples which are available from the SharePoint client-side web part sample repository at\u00a0https:\/\/github.com\/SharePoint\/sp-dev-fx-webparts<\/a>\u00a0or from the SharePoint Framework Extensions repository at\u00a0https:\/\/github.com\/SharePoint\/sp-dev-fx-extensions<\/a>.<\/p>\n Web parts<\/strong><\/p>\n SharePoint Framework Extensions<\/strong><\/p>\n Other samples<\/strong><\/p>\n SharePoint Dev articles are surfaced at\u00a0docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sharepoint\/dev<\/a>. Since the last release, also classic SharePoint server side API reference documentation has been moved to the docs.microsoft.com platform. You can provide contributions to these documents by submitting documentation improvements using GitHub tooling. All of the SharePoint Dev docs are stored and surfaced from the\u00a0sp-dev-docs repository<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here are new\/updated articles on the SharePoint Development.<\/p>\n You can find all\u00a0SharePoint Dev videos on our YouTube Channel at\u00a0http:\/\/aka.ms\/spdev-videos<\/a>. This location contains already a significant amount of detailed training material, demo videos, and community call recordings. Here are the new demo or guidance videos released since the last monthly summary.<\/p>\n\n
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January 2019 monthly community call<\/h2>\n
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SharePoint Dev Ecosystem in GitHub<\/h2>\n
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What’s supportability story around PnP material?<\/h2>\n
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Area-specific updates<\/h2>\n
SharePoint\u00a0Starter Kit<\/h3>\n
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SharePoint Dev YouTube video channel<\/h3>\n