From the course: SharePoint Framework for Developers: 4 Managing External Libraries
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Background and overview of SPFx scenarios
From the course: SharePoint Framework for Developers: 4 Managing External Libraries
Background and overview of SPFx scenarios
- [Instructor] Let's start with a little background and overview. Why are we even watching this course? The question is, why do we need external libraries? Well, the answer is quite simple. JavaScript was never designed to write the kinds of programs we are writing with it today. TypeScript makes things a little bit better. However, it is really a lot of frameworks that we rely on in addition to TypeScript to simplify our JavaScript life. Cross browser issues, things like data binding, et cetera. A lot of facilities are given to us by these frameworks. Now, these frameworks, they may be Angular, React, Knockout, or something else. But the reality is all modern solutions these days rely on frameworks, including your SharePoint Framework solutions. So we need to address them. Now, a number of scenarios come out of this. For instance, if you're using a framework, and when you build a version of your SharePoint Framework solution, you know when you run Gulp package solution, should you…
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