SharePoint Framework Insights

What is SharePoint Framework?

SharePoint Framework (SPFx) is a development model that enables building client-side web parts, extensions, and Microsoft Teams tabs for SharePoint Online, SharePoint on-premises (SharePoint 2016 Feature Pack 2 and later), and Microsoft Teams. It provides a modern toolchain and client-side rendering to create responsive and engaging experiences. It is commonly used to customize SharePoint sites, extend Microsoft Teams functionality, and build custom applications within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.

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What other technologies are related to SharePoint Framework?

SharePoint Framework Competitor Technologies

SharePoint Designer

SharePoint Designer offers alternative ways to customize SharePoint, but it is a legacy tool and its capabilities overlap with SPFx in areas like UI customization and workflow creation, though SPFx is more modern and powerful.

mentioned alongside SharePoint Framework in 10% (590) of relevant job posts

Microsoft Power Apps

Power Apps provides a low-code/no-code approach to building applications that can integrate with SharePoint, offering an alternative to SPFx for some use cases.

mentioned alongside SharePoint Framework in 1% (1.7k) of relevant job posts

JSOM

The JavaScript Object Model (JSOM) is an older way of interacting with SharePoint client-side. SPFx encourages the use of REST APIs or newer libraries over JSOM.

mentioned alongside SharePoint Framework in 17% (131) of relevant job posts

InfoPath

InfoPath was a form creation tool that offered an alternative to SPFx for building custom forms in SharePoint. InfoPath is deprecated in favor of tools such as Power Apps and SPFx.

mentioned alongside SharePoint Framework in 5% (177) of relevant job posts

Power Platform

The Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI) provides low-code/no-code alternatives to SPFx for building solutions that integrate with SharePoint.

mentioned alongside SharePoint Framework in 1% (627) of relevant job posts

CAML

Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML) is an older way of querying and manipulating SharePoint data. SPFx solutions typically use REST APIs or CSOM instead of CAML for most operations.

mentioned alongside SharePoint Framework in 11% (57) of relevant job posts

Nintex

Nintex offers workflow automation and forms solutions that can be used as alternatives to SharePoint Framework for building business solutions in SharePoint.

mentioned alongside SharePoint Framework in 4% (116) of relevant job posts

PowerPlatform

Duplicate of Power Platform

mentioned alongside SharePoint Framework in 3% (143) of relevant job posts

SharePoint Framework Complementary Technologies

SharePoint Online

SharePoint Framework is a primary development model for SharePoint Online. SPFx solutions are hosted and run within SharePoint Online.

mentioned alongside SharePoint Framework in 4% (1.3k) of relevant job posts

SharePoint on Premise 2013/2016

SharePoint Framework is compatible with SharePoint on-premises (2016 and later), although with potentially different feature sets and deployment considerations compared to SharePoint Online.

mentioned alongside SharePoint Framework in 71% (59) of relevant job posts

CSOM

Client Side Object Model (CSOM) can be used within SharePoint Framework solutions to interact with SharePoint data and functionality.

mentioned alongside SharePoint Framework in 15% (245) of relevant job posts