SPFx (SharePoint Framework) scaffolds a fairly opinionated folder structure via its Yeoman generator — here’s what each part actually does, and the two competing ways to organize your own code inside src/ once a project grows past a single web part. In this post: The scaffolded structure · src/ and config/ in detail · Type-based […]
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Important update: the API this post was originally about — SP.Utilities.Utility.SendEmail — was retired by Microsoft on October 31, 2025. If you have code using the raw REST or PnPjs examples further down, it has stopped working. The current, supported way to send email programmatically from SharePoint is Microsoft Graph’s sendMail API. This post now
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CSOM, JSOM, and the REST API all interact with SharePoint data from outside server-side code — the real question is which one fits a given project, not which one is “best.” Here’s what each actually is, working code for all three doing the same operation, and how they compare. In this post: What each one
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Four ways to update a term in the SharePoint Term Store programmatically — SharePoint’s own REST API, Microsoft Graph, plain JavaScript, and PnPjs — and what actually differs between them beyond “which one is easiest.” In this post: Option 1: SharePoint REST API · Option 2: Microsoft Graph · Option 3: plain JavaScript · Option
Worth flagging directly before anything else: neither of the two role-assignment examples that usually accompany this topic will actually run against a fresh list or library — both skip breaking permission inheritance first, which SharePoint requires before it accepts a role assignment at all. This post covers the built-in roles, the real numeric IDs behind
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List attachments keep a file tied directly to a specific item — a screenshot on a bug, a resume on a candidate record — without setting up a separate document library. This covers uploading, reading, and deleting them with PnP.js inside a React-based SPFx component, plus batching when you’re handling more than one file at
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SharePoint attachments — files uploaded directly onto a list item, not into a document library — are common in forms and ticketing-style lists. Here’s how to create, read, and delete them with plain JavaScript against the REST API, no PnPjs required. In this post: Uploading an attachment · Reading attachments · Downloading the actual file
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Seven real installation problems people hit with Node.js and npm, and the actual fix for each — version conflicts, permission errors, SSL/proxy issues, and the Windows-specific build-tools error that trips up more people than any of the others. In this post: Conflicting versions · Permission errors (EACCES) · SSL certificate errors · Proxy and firewall
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npm link creates a symlink between a globally-linked local package and another project, so you can develop a package and test it live in a consuming project without publishing it to the registry first. In this post: Worked example: building a custom Gulp plugin · The gotcha to know about · Confirming what actually got
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Gulp is a JavaScript task runner built on Node.js streams — it automates repetitive front-end tasks instead of you running them by hand every time. Gulp CLI is the separate package that lets you actually run those tasks from the terminal with a plain gulp taskname, instead of writing a Node script to invoke Gulp’s
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