SharePoint Framework is the new, modern, and fresh approach for implementing customizations in SharePoint and SharePoint Online. It’s a client-side approach to a server-side problem, allowing developers already familiar with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS to implement lightweight custom functionality for SharePoint.
In the past, SharePoint-based development has been challenging, complex, poorly documented and full of changing directions from Microsoft.
Originally, in early 2000, the guidance, was not to modify or customize SharePoint. Microsoft was saying at the time not to touch anything and simply to use SharePoint as a portal service that hosts your content and documents. With newer versions of SharePoint for on-premises deployments, ...
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