Panel: Charles Max Wood Special Guests: Vesa JuvonenIn this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panel talks to Vesa Juvonen about building SharePoint extensions with JavaScript. Vesa is on the SharePoint development team and is responsible for the SharePoint Framework, which is the modern way of implementing SharePoint customizations with JavaScript. They talk about what SharePoint is, why they chose to use JavaScript with it, and how he maintains isolation. They also touch on the best way to get started with SharePoint, give some great resources to help you use it, and more!In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Vesa intro
• What is SharePoint?
• Has existed since 2009
• People either know about it and use it or don’t know what it is
• Baggage from a customization perspective
• Why JavaScript developers?
• Modernizing development
• SharePoint Framework
• Microsoft Ignite Conference
• Is there a market for it?
• System integrators
• Angular Element and React
• React for SharePoint Framework back-end
• Supports Vue
• React Round Up Podcast
• How do you maintain isolation?
• What’s the best way to get started with SharePoint extensions?
• Office 365 Developer Program
• SharePoint documentation
• SharePoint YouTube
• What kinds of extensions are you seeing people build?
• And much, much more!

Links:

• SharePoint
• JavaScript
• SharePoint Framework
• Microsoft Ignite Conference
• Angular Element
• React
• Vue
• React Round Up Podcast
• Office 365 Developer Program
• SharePoint documentation
• SharePoint YouTube 
• @OfficeDev
• @vesajuvonen
• Vesa’s blog
• Vesa’s GitHub
• @SharePoint

Sponsors

• Kendo UI
• Sentry
• Digital Ocean

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Vesa

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