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Understanding app parts - SharePoint Tutorial
From the course: SharePoint 2013 Essential Training
Understanding app parts
Every time we add an app to a SharePoint site, there's a corresponding Web Part that's created for it. So, when we're looking, for example, at the documents that are new this week, what we see is a Web Part called New This Week, that displays these documents. If I go to the Documents Library itself, I'll also see another Web Part and this isn't a two-stage process, it's one-stage. I go in and say I'd like a Document Library. SharePoint says, well, we have to show that to you some place on a page. So, we're going to go ahead and create a Web Part to do that. So, when I create the Library, I get the Web Part. That's true with almost every app that you're going to use in SharePoint, because SharePoint is used to create websites with pages to present information to you. Now often, when we're talking about pages in SharePoint, we'll talk about this being a Web Part, but that the real data lives in the Documents Library. But actually, the data doesn't live here either. All of these…