SPCA2013 - SharePoint Hosted Apps and Javascript

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Introduction

• Wesley Bakker

• Email : [email protected]

• Principal Consultant at motion10

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Agenda

• SharePoint-Hosted Apps

• The good, the bad and the ugly

• JavaScript

• The good, the bad and the… etc.

• Demo

• Questions

SharePoint Hosted AppsThe good, the bad and the ugly

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What Microsoft says about SharePoint-hosted apps

“SharePoint-hosted apps: SharePoint-hosted apps contain only declarative content, such as HTML and JavaScript, and don’t have any server-side code that is packaged with them. These types of apps store the HTML and other content in SharePoint and simply present the declarative content to the browser. SharePoint-hosted apps interact with SharePoint via the JavaScript object model or Representational State Transfer (REST) end-points and are client-side based. The design and interaction of these types of apps are similar to client-side design patterns used with sandboxed solutions.” *

*http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/office/dn268593(v=office.15)

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The good

• Solves many problems for Microsoft

• JavaScript only

• Apps run in their own app web which is a sub web of the host web

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The bad

• Solves many problems for Microsoft

• JavaScript only

• Apps run in their own app web which is a sub web of the host web

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The ugly

• SharePoint-hosted apps do not work with SAML and FBA sites

JavaScriptThe good, the bad and the… etc.

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The good

• Dynamic programming language

• Extensible

• Can be written in an Object-oriented fashion

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The bad

• Dynamic programming language

• Extensible

• Can be written in an Object-oriented fashion

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The ugly

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Real development shortcomings

• No type checking

• No compile-time validation

• IntelliSense is not that good

Huge DemoDemo

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Conclusion

• TypeScript is pretty cool

• Still in preview though and the Visual Studio plugin is not very stable…

• T4 templating is pretty cool

• T4 templating could use some TLC… no intellisense is pretty much a deal breaker though

• AngularJS is pretty cool

• No buts… it is pretty cool!

• Web Essentials is pretty cool

• The tool does have some bugs, it is open source though and you can submit your changes

• Writing SharePoint-hosted Apps can be pretty cool…

• Nobody said it would be easy though..