Presented on Office 365 & SharePoint Connect 2018 - SharePoint Framework is here, and it can be used for building solutions for SharePoint Online and SharePoint on-premises. This session is dedicated to on-premises SPFx scenarios. Aim is to emphasize difference in functionalities that can be used for SPFx solutions for the cloud and on-prem, and to demonstrate how to develop SPFx solution for on-premises deployment.

1. Developing with SharePoint
Framework (SPFx) on-premises
Dragan Panjkov

3. Dragan Panjkov
Microsoft MVP: Office Servers and Services; Office Development
Consultant at K2 Northern Europe (www.k2.com)
Website and blog: www.dragan-panjkov.com
Twitter: @panjkov
Github: www.github.com/panjkov

4. Agenda
• SharePoint Framework?
• On-premises limitations
• What is supported where
• Configuration steps
• Demos

5. SharePoint UX – Evolving cross versions
2009
SharePoint
Server 2010
2006
Office SharePoint
Server 2007
2003
SharePoint
Portal Server 2003
2001
SharePoint
Portal Server 2001
2012
SharePoint
Server 2013
2016 …
SharePoint
Server 2016, SPO

6. SharePoint Framework Extensibility Principles

7. SharePoint Framework

8. Web Parts
SharePoint web parts

9. Extensions
extend the SharePoint user experience within modern pages and
document libraries
• Application Customizers
• Field Customizers
• Command Sets

10. Understanding differences
• SharePoint Online is always latest version
• All new Features are introduced here
• SharePoint on-prem version is a fork
• Feature Freeze
• New Features added through Public Updates ( September 2017 PU – FP2 for
SP 2016)
• Cannot check/ensure version of server side dependencies
• Yeoman Generator is using packages actual at moment when fork is
created (mostly)

11. Considerations
• SharePoint App infrastructure is still necessary
• App Management Service
• Subscription Settings Service
• APP URLs
• App Catalog
http://www.mikerodionov.com/2016/09/provisioning-sharepoint-app-
catalog-in-sp-20132016/

13. SharePoint 2016
• SharePoint Framework Web parts on Classic Pages
• Using version 1.1 of libraries
• Available as a choice since Yeoman Generator v1.3
• Necessary to host JavaScript and JSON files somewhere
• If SP document library is used – JSON file type has to be unblocked

14. SharePoint 2019
• Modern Pages
• Modern Sites
• Extensions
• Webhooks
• No CDN is required
• Column formatting
• Tenant scoped deployment
• ALM APIs
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/blogs/sharepoint-dev-
community-pnp-general-sp-dev-sig-recording-15th-of-november-2018/

15. Resources
• aka.ms/spfx
• http://www.mikerodionov.com/2016/09/provisioning-sharepoint-
app-catalog-in-sp-20132016/
• http://jenkinsblogs.com/2016/10/04/deploy-spfx-client-side-web-
part-to-a-sharepoint-library/
• www.dragan-panjkov.com
• https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/blogs/sharepoint-
dev-community-pnp-general-sp-dev-sig-recording-15th-of-november-
2018/