From the course: SharePoint Framework for Developers: 2 Authoring and Debugging Solutions

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Debug SPFx solutions in the hosted workbench in Office365

Debug SPFx solutions in the hosted workbench in Office365

From the course: SharePoint Framework for Developers: 2 Authoring and Debugging Solutions

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Debug SPFx solutions in the hosted workbench in Office365

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- [Instructor] Now you write a lot of compelling SharePoint Framework Solutions, and a lot of them will make use of SharePoint Artifacts, like REST, CSOM, Microsoft Graph, so on, so forth. So sometimes, you need to be able to run within the context of SharePoint, even for debugging. So I'd like you to focus your attention on this hosted Workbench, in launch.jsn. It says, enter-your-SharePoint-site_layouts/workbench.aspx. So it is technically possible to run your SharePoint Framework solution in debug mode, in a SharePoint site. Let me show you how. So the way this works, is you just run gulp serve --nobrowser, that just means don't run the browser, but do everything else. Now, this'll run in the background. Let's minimize that. Let's go in and open the browser, and visit one of my Office 365 sites. So let's visit the modern site. Now you can do this in either the modern site, or the classic site, but I'll show this in a modern site, and you can try doing this in a classic site…

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