Exercise - Create and configure your SharePoint Online developer tenant

Completed

In this exercise, you'll configure your SharePoint environment to be ready for SharePoint Framework development.

Open a browser and navigate to your Microsoft 365 tenant's SharePoint admin center site: https://{{REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_TENANTID}}-admin.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/online/AdminHome.aspx.

Replace the text {{REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_TENANTID}} in the above URL with the unique prefix for your Microsoft 365 tenant. For example, if the domain for your SharePoint sites is contoso.sharepoint.com, then the unique prefix for your Microsoft 365 tenant is contoso.

Create the SharePoint tenant app catalog site

Select More features in the left-hand navigation.

Screenshot of the SharePoint admin center

Select the Open button under Apps.

Screenshot of the SharePoint admin center - More Features

If you're taken to an app catalog site as shown in the following image, then your tenant already has a SharePoint tenant app catalog site.

Screenshot of a provisioned app catalog

Otherwise the SharePoint tenant app catalog site will automatically be provisioned for you.

Screenshot of the SharePoint admin center - App catalog menu

Create a development site collection

Open a browser and navigate to your Microsoft 365 tenant's SharePoint admin center site: https://{{REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_TENANTID}}-admin.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/online/AdminHome.aspx.

Replace the text {{REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_TENANTID}} in the above URL with the unique prefix for your Microsoft 365 tenant.

On the SharePoint admin center site, select Sites > Active sites from the left-hand navigation and then select Create.

Screenshot of the Active sites list

On the Create a site panel, select the Team site button.

Screenshot of the Create a site panel

On the Create a team site panel, enter the following values to create a new team site collection and select Next.

  • Site name: Developer Site
  • Primary administrator: use the people picker to select your account
  • Select a language: select the default language for your site

Screenshot of the Create a team site panel

On the Add site owners and members, you may optionally add owners and members to the site. Select Finish.

Screenshot of the Add site owners and members panel

Note

After a minute or two the site collection will be created. On the SharePoint admin center site, select the Sites > Active Sites item in the left-hand navigation. You'll see a list of all classic and modern sites including the Developer site that you just created.

Screenshot of the Active sites list - Created site

Summary

In this exercise, you configured your SharePoint environment to be ready for SharePoint Framework development.

Test your knowledge

1.

Where can SharePoint Framework client-side web parts be used?

2.

To deploy and test SharePoint Framework components, what must you first do in your SharePoint tenant?