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When TypeScript first landed in public view in October 2012, the type annotations looked a bit funky. If you were a student of type theory, they would have been familiar; but most programmers wouldn’t have seen a type annotation like this before: var name: string; Given the popularity of putting type names before variable names,… READ MORE
Grow and enhance your skills with the European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Community. Joining the ESPC Community, gives you access to the online resource centre at sharepointeurope.com, providing the best, free content on SharePoint, Azure and Office 365. Topics covered include Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, SharePoint Framework, Office 365 Groups, OneDrive, PowerApps & Flow, Security,… READ MORE
A singleton is a pattern that guarantees there is a single instance of an object in the system. A singleton can maintain a state which is shared across the entire system. Singletons abstract their internal workings from the rest of the system. singleton Singleton pattern Singletons are common in business applications. They help model real-life… READ MORE
Builder pattern builds a complex object using simple objects and using a step by step approach. This type of design pattern comes under creational pattern as this pattern provides one of the best ways to create an object. A Builder class builds the final object step by step. This builder is independent of other objects.… READ MORE
In my previous post we talked about the factory method design pattern, on this post we will go deeper and explain the Abstract Factory which is in the same family of Creational Design Patterns. Creational Design Patterns Series: Factory method Abstract Factory (this post) Builder (soon) Prototype (soon) Singleton (soon) Abstract Factory The abstract factory… READ MORE
SharePoint Framework is suddenly not an option and you feel sad because you need to go back to write plain JavaScript? You don’t have to and you really shouldn’t. Spend just a few minutes and you can do it in Typescript instead! Let me be super clear about this: you should always use SharePoint Framework… READ MORE
SharePoint Framework, what about on-premise people ? This is my two cents journey from switching my mind away from on-premise development methods to Office 365 SharePoint Developer. Back in 2015, when I saw all those tutorials about SharePoint Framework, the so-called modern way of developing new apps inside SharePoint, back in 2015, I told myself:… READ MORE
TypeScript isn’t really a new language, it’s a way of writing code in the next generation of JavaScript before it’s fully supported by all browsers. By the time that browser support for ES6 is there, we’ll be all writing TypeScript using ES9 features that ‘transpile’ down to ES6 code! Of course, there are cool features of the typescript… READ MORE
The principles of SOLID are guidelines that can be applied to software development to improve legibility and maintainability of software applications. This article by Stefano Tempesta, MCC & MVP, explores best practices and design patterns for developing SharePoint SOLID Web Parts in TypeScript, using the new client-side SharePoint Framework, and improving compliance to the five SOLID… READ MORE
