Summary

Microsoft has made it clear that the SharePoint development framework is the way of the future. Microsoft over the years has made the steady move from farm solutions to sandbox solutions to app solutions, and this in turn has made developing on the platform less risky and more uniform. Additionally, since SPFx uses common open source client development tools, traditional SharePoint developers who embraced this new way would now not be limited to only developing for SharePoint but could begin developing cross-platform. In the same vein, the agnostic framework has opened up the world of SharePoint development to developers that did not traditionally work in SharePoint. SPFx can be used to develop solutions both on-premises and on SharePoint Online. This standardized development method is great because as many organizations are looking to move their technological footprint from on-premises to the cloud, we must begin to create solutions even while on-premises that will migrate...