SharePoint Framework
Getting all your Hub content using Search
March 27, 2018
Yay! Hubsites are out and we are very (very) excited! This new way or organizing your site content will be very useful to help in a flat information architecture and the fact that some built-in features are built to roll-up content from all your connected content is incredible!
I'm killing the SPFx Angular Boilerplate... And it's a good thing!
December 1, 2017
A bit of background
I’ve been working in the last few months to understand better the integration possibilities between Angular and the famous SharePoint Framework and I had a lot of fun discovering this landscape! I’ve been building some kind of a workaround with the help of some resources being made available by Microsoft a couple of months ago (funny story, I’m writing this blog post at the exact same coffee shop in a suburb of Montreal where that journey started 10 months ago) and I’ve been touring with a session to show that it was indeed possible to play with Angular and SharePoint, even though I was not recommending it for anyone who wanted to push that code to production. It was more a proof of concept than a future-proof approach. We had great conversations with Andrew Connell, Waldek Mastykarz, Marc D. Anderson and even a couple of debates with Sahil Malik. Even though it was a great learning resource (especially for anyone wanting to try out Angular in a SharePoint context), this solution had to die, some day…
SharePoint Framework and Angular - Walkthrough of the SPFx Angular Boilerplate
August 1, 2017
In this post, we will cover the general concepts used to make the SharePoint Framework Angular Boilerplate work and how it solves the challenges that were preventing the production use of both technologies together.
SharePoint Framework and Angular - Introducing the SPFx Angular Boilerplate
July 31, 2017
So… This had to happen. Being an Office Developer and using Angular as my main UI framework, I really wanted to find a solution for supporting Angular in the modern SharePoint development toolchain, the SharePoint Framework. I’ve been starting my journey where Microsoft left (the angular2-prototype proof-of-concept that was created by some of the Microsoft folks) and made sure we can improve it to make it usable and supportable in the long run.