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Office 365: Setting up your development environment

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Introduction

In this wiki article, let's give an overview on how to set up your development environment for Office 365 and the SharePoint Framework. 

Office 365 Developer Tenant

Before you can start coding, you need an Office 365 developer tenant. You could sign up for a 1-year free developer subscription at: http://dev.office.com. Navigate to the website, follow the instructions and sign up. You will receive a welcome email with a link to sign up for an Office 365 development tenant. First Release will be enabled by default for this tenant.

You could also create an Office 365 developer tenant using your MSDN subscription (Premium and Ultimate).

The Office 365 development tenant is for developing and testing purposes only.

Visual Studio

For a development environment, you can choose between Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio 2015. Visual Studio Code is the free open source tool Microsoft developed. Check the download section for downloading VSCode.

For most development tasks VSCode will be suitable. however, if you want to use the Office Development tools for Visual Studio, you need to install Visual Studio 2015 with update 2. The Office Development tools will provide some project templates that give you a head start on developing SharePoint Add-ins or Office Add-ins. Besides Office 365 development, Visual Studio will provide project templates targeting the old on-premise development model as well (SharePoint and VSTO solutions). So, you should focus on the templates displayed in the image below:

In VSCode you have to write almost everything from scratch. There are some helpful open source tools, but it will not give you the same development experience that Visual Studio 2015 will give.

Office 365 Developer Patterns & Practices Tools

Besides the Microsoft tools there is a community project called Office 365 Developer Patterns & Practices (PnP). The focus of PnP is to provide training, guiding, articles and solutions to support the community.

One of the key elements PnP is offering is a framework which makes it easy to develop Office 365 solutions. This is an open source library on GitHub called SharePoint PnP Core. You can include this library in all your Visual Studio projects using a NuGet package. After installing this NuGet package you can call common CSOM/REST operations using Extension Methods.

The PnP Core team also provides the PnP Remote Provisioning Engine. With this engine you can provision SharePoint on premise and SharePoint Online artifact using SharePoint CSOM instead of the ‘old’ SharePoint feature framework.

Another solution which is provided by the PnP Core Team is the PnP Powershell Cmdlets. This solution contains a library of PowerShell commands that allows you to perform provisioning and management actions towards SharePoint on premise and SharePoint Online.

You can download a .msi setup package from GitHub to install the PnP Powershell Cmdlets. If your operating system is Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016 (or have PowerShell 3.0 installed), you can install the Cmdlets from within your PowerShell Command line.

SharePoint Online:

Install-Module SharePointPnPPowerShellOnline -AllowClobber

SharePoint 2016

Install-Module SharePointPnPPowerShell2016 -AllowClobber

SharePoint 2013

Install-Module SharePointPnPPowerShell2013 –AllowClobber

SharePoint Framework

On May 4, 2016 Microsoft Announced the SharePoint Framework, which allows you to develop client side web parts and applications using JavaScript.

For creating applications using the SharePoint Framework, you can use any kind of code editor as long as you can use it to write JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js.

To install the latest version of the Node.js runtime, navigate to the Node.js website. After installing, update the NPM package manager to the latest version using the node.js command line. Type the following command:

npm install -g npm

npm install -g npm

Wrap-up

This concludes setting up your development environment for Office 365. Below is a list for further reading. You should definitely check these out. There is a lot more information on PnP and the SharePoint Framework there.

Further Reading

Downloads