Packaging and Deploying Solutions

Now that we're getting more familiar with SharePoint Framework and Visual Studio Code, it's time to start deploying our code more properly to SharePoint. The difference between running your code against a local SharePoint Workbench, a hosted SharePoint Workbench and deploying it to SharePoint is important to understand. For this, we need to learn to package our customization into a neat package and install the packages through SharePoint's App Catalog service. In addition, SharePoint Framework supports the use of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) that greatly optimize the client-side behavior for your users, so we'll take a look at how to configure CDN properly either through SharePoint Online or Microsoft Azure. You could use an on-premises SharePoint also, but typically this is either not needed or is handled in another device...