Category: Development
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Create your first Adaptive Card Extension

Using the Microsoft SharePoint Yeoman generator (for a quick review of the tool you can check this blog post) you can create your first ACE project. To create your first ACE with Yeoman you have to execute the command: and provide various values to it: What is your solution name?…
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Physiology of an Adaptive Card Extension

The Adaptive Card Extension (aka ACE) is a custom component that enable the user to extend the Viva Connections’ dashboard using SPFx. When you create a Generic Card using the Microsoft SharePoint Yeoman generator you will have a solution like the following: In detail the src folder structure will be…
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Console.log …or not?

I bet that on your way developing components for SPFx you already know what console.log is and how to use it…but you know that there are also other useful methods? Following the documentation here you can find all the supported methods, some of which are: I think that some of…
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Do you know PnP? I think that you should.

PnP stands for Pattern & Practices, this is an initiative which include samples, guidance and tools regarding SharePoint Framework, Office 365 APIs, Office Add-ins, and Microsoft Graph. PnP is community driven open source project where Microsoft and external community members are sharing their knowledge and best practices for Office 365, SharePoint…
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Yeoman generator is your best friend for SPFx

First things first: what is Yeoman? Yeoman is a CLI tool that helps you create new projects. To do so Yeoman uses various Generators, depending on the type of project you’re creating there are multiple generators available. If you want to know more and discover all the available generators you…