Announcing the General availability of Microsoft’s SharePoint Framework

Recently, Microsoft announced the general availability of the SharePoint Framework. With this, developers and SharePoint development services companies could use modern web tools and technologies in the development environment they prefer to create applications and experiences on the framework, which are mobile-ready and responsive. When it comes to developing SharePoint solutions, programmers and developers could start creating client-side web parts with the use of modern script development tools as well as the SharePoint Workbench. Furthermore, they could deploy client-side web parts to class web part pages in Office 365 Developer tenants. It works beside common scripting frameworks, which include AngularJS, together with JavaScript. For instance, React, together with Office UI components, it could rapidly build experiences that’s based on the same components used in Office 365.

The general availability is arguably the upgrade that any SharePoint development company and the developer community has been most eager to their hands on. Practically, this means the utilization of web technologies for building apps on SharePoint, which are responsive, agile and again mobile friendly. SharePoint has been used as an app and development platform for quite some time now. It provides multiple sets of customization and SharePoint development options. The release of the framework is a huge step in boosting the developer experience, that’s often been characterized as difficult and clumsy. The framework provides developers access to libraries and tools, enabling development at a pace that reflects the fast changing enterprise technology scenario as well as worker expectations. The move was unveiled during a San Francisco Future of SharePoint event in San Francisco, where Jeff Teper, the corporate VP for the OneDrive and SP teams outlined the mobile-first, cloud-first vision and the SharePoint roadmap. Teper pointed to some pending new upgrades and releases, which were designed to allow organizations and teams to discover, share and collaborate content intelligently anywhere and on any device.

Developers required a more efficient model and tool chain, which enables them to scale beyond the latest constraints. The client-side development framework would deliver capabilities, which will help Microsoft partners, engineers, customers and developers all over the community to build rich, powerful apps. Agile development capabilities are a major element in creating and boosting the platform. Microsoft has demonstrated the company commitment over the past year through enhancing Team Sites, making pages easier, updating document libraries and in general making SP more accessible to enterprise workers. At the Microsoft Ignite, the SharePoint Framework was one of the top discussed things on Twitter among the technologies of Microsoft during the event. The contributions of the community to the evolving framework has been strong, with dozens and dozens of blog posts on techniques and tools from the community, exploring different techniques and facets of building parts. Now, more than 30 code samples are live in the GitHub repository for code samples, a lot of which were created by the community. Beside a rich set of web parts with the platform, developers could also build completely new web parts.

The announcement of the new SP framework does not deprecate any of the existing development models. On the contrary, when the framework gets released, it would yet be another asset in the developer toolbox and a huge plus in the SharePoint development training. Although it has not been released yet, it is good to begin thinking about various scenarios in which one could benefit or not benefit from it. The best way to explain which scenarios are the best for using the new SharePoint Frameworks is illustrating them with examples. Using it, one could build solutions consisting 100 percent JavaScript. Similar to SP solutions built in past with the use of jQuery, Knockout, Angular and JSOM, such solutions will be fully executed in the browser. Using TypeScript to create the solutions is an intelligent choice because it adds an extra validation layer, but not required. Either way, eventually, what is executed in the browser is plain JavaScript. Nonetheless, with the same framework one could build more complex solutions, which combine the modern SP UX as well as the power of the add-in model for code security and isolation. Thus, while the SharePoint Framework solutions could be 100 percent JavaScript, they do not necessarily have to. Most probably, the most powerful customizations would be combining various services and models that are available in Microsoft cloud.

The SharePoint Framework solutions, just like any other client-side solution, run in the current user context. There’s no permission elevation, like one could do with farm solutions or specific permission grants. Whatever the present users, interacting with specific customization could do, the customization could do as well. The code of the solutions of the framework could be hosted anywhere. It could be hosted in SharePoint, hosted in one’s own servers or host it in the cloud. The solution has a URL reference in which code is located and when customization begins, it loads the particular script in the browser.

NASA has Discovered a leet of New Earth-Like Planets in the Solar System

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA has announced a news that would delight people all over the world. Scientists last week found a fleet of new planets, and not just any old exoplanets. The scientists unveiled a solar system that seem to be jam-packed with earth-sized worlds. The season probably-rock bodies can be a great place to look for life. Furthermore, the good people at NASA headquarters have created an entirely new website that’s devoted to the TRAPPIST-1 system. The scientists freaked out upon seeing the earth-like planets outside earths solar system, which they call TRAPPIST-1. The newly-discovered worlds are about 40 light years away from Earth. This means that using a rocket technology today, and plenty of cash, it probably would take about 11,250 years to get to TRAPPIST-1. 

EARTH-SIZED WORLDS DISCOVERED IN SPACE BY NASA

NASA’s expert, Aki Roberge helps plan future missions for NASA to provide updated space news on their new discovery. Roberge stated that the most exciting thing for actual scientists is that these planets are near enough that they could actually be studied, especially when the James Webb Space Telescope launches. When it launches, it would have a real shot at actually taking a look at the planets’ atmosphere, that is, if they have atmospheres at all. It is like a promise of future excitement. People would think this is similar to the stuff that NASA’s been doing already. In some aspect, it is. However, it is a smaller start, closer to earth and has more planets that are really tightly packed. The closer the system is to earth’s solar system, the more the star is similar to the sun and the planet is like Earth, the more likely that people will understand what they are looking for, which makes it exciting.

The masses and sizes of these planets is truly valuable information since it does suggests that most are rocky. Six of the seven planets appear like they are rocky. Furthermore, being earth-sized, it seems a good place, an atmosphere that is thick enough to keep warm and last billions of years, but not so thick that one would end up being a gas giant planet. However, there are reasons to consider that being a rock in the habitable zone of a red dwarf is actually not a nice place to live, and that the environments are very much different from the Earth’s solar system. Many of these investigations, which are going forward over the next ten years are to find the answers to the questions.

Most of these planets have the right distance from a start that perhaps they can have liquid water on their surfaces, but this is a big maybe. The big deal about rocky planets is that they are the only kind of planets that people could live and with habitable conditions of life, life that could actually be understood or recognized from interstellar distances. In the solar system, the earth is unique in a truly important way. It is the only planet with surface life so abundant that it is affecting the atmosphere, that’s noticeable from interstellar distances.

The discovery of these planets would make people realize that we have neighbors. As far as the laws of physics allow, one could get to TRAPPIST-1 in a human lifetime, forty years traveling at the speed of light. Thus, it becomes more a problem of engineering than laws of physics problem. For all we know, TRAPPIST-1 can have black sand beaches that are surrounded by purples oceans full of hyper-intelligent jellyfish. Scientists said that it is possible that the planets are positioned with a light side and dark side, which can make for some interesting forms of life and some truly weird weather patterns, but for now they are unsure.

NASA is not alone in making delightful content for the curious planets, since Google Doodle is also making content that is downright adorable. The Google site is bursting with all the knowledge that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has to share regarding the seven planets as well as their tiny start. Scientists would continue observing the system with space telescopes, such as Spitzer, Keple and Hubble to find out information as much as they can. When the James Webb telescope was launched in 2018, it actually could measure the temperature of the planets and determine the chemical compositions of their atmosphere. This could tell whether the three planets sitting in the habitable zone of TRAPPIST-1 could actually hold liquid water.

The distances which the planets orbit Trappist-1 could be compared to Jupiter’s distance to its moons. All the planets are believed to be rocky and believed to be about Earth’s size, give or take ten to twenty percent. The dimness of the star is actually what led to the discovery of the planets. When astronomers were looking for exoplanets, typically they look for a temporary dimming of a start, which is an indication that a planet has passed in front of it. The method makes it difficult to find small, rocky worlds that are orbiting bright, big stars.