PnP Web Cast - Introducing PnP JavaScript Special Interest Group

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on the Office Developer Patterns and Practices (PnP) Special Interest Group (SIG) for JavaScript. This is relatively new SIG and virtual team in the PnP initiative which concentrates on JavaScript techniques. Objective of this work is to produce a modular, flexible and developer focused JavaScript library for simplifying interactions with SharePoint and also with other Office 365 services in future. This development is done with modern web tooling, including TypeScript, Node.js, Gulp and other similar tooling. This means that secondary objective for this work is to introduce this tooling also for classic SharePoint developers.

Idea and concept for the PnP Special Interest Groups was introduced in February 2016. You can read more details around the concept from following blog post at dev.office.com: Introducing Office Dev PnP Office Hours and Special Interest Groups. 

Presentation covers following topics

• Mission statement and goals for the Special Interest Group (SIG)
• Initiative or SIG introduction
• SIG activities and how the team works together

In demo section Patrick covers following topics

• Location of the assets and the JavaScript Core component in GitHub
• Existing guidance and input
• How to get started with Visual Studio Code, TypeScript and Node.js for the development of this library

Web cast presenters: Vesa Juvonen, Patrick Rodgers

Patrick works as a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft and is also a Office 365 Dev PnP Core team member. 

Presentation used in this web cast is available from http://docs.com/OfficeDevPnP.

Addition resources

See following resources around the covered topics

• Introducting PnP Office Hours and Special Intrest Groups - Introduction blog post at dev.office.com on the concept of PnP SIGs. 
• Office Dev PnP JavaScript SIG Yammer group - questions, feedback and comments
• Office Dev PnP JavaScript SIG repository at GitHub
• Invite to open weekly call around PnP JavaScript SIG
• NPM package for the JavaScript library - Work in progress

Thanks for your interest on the PnP initiative.

If you have any feedback or comments related on this web cast, please use the Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practices Yammer group to provider your input. Thx for your interest advance.