Extending Microsoft Teams with SPFx webparts

Extending MicrosoftTeams with SPFx webparts
Level: 100-200 ||Teams track
Who wouldn't want to just develop once and then run their code everywhere? Now with SPFx (SharePoint
Framework) 1.8 being out, we're getting one step closer to that, as we're given an elegant way to bridge the gap
between your portals built on SharePoint, and MicrosoftTeams where most of the collaboration happens.Teams is
just getting more and more powerful - and you can make it even more powerful by extending it.
This session contains an overview ofTeams extensibility scenarios, what SPFx is, and a closer look on how they
work together.We're taking a closer look (with demos!) at two different scenarios: how to create a new SPFx
webpart to be used withTeams, and how to modernize a webpart you already have running in your environment.
After this session, you're familiar with the basics of developing SPFx webparts to be used both in SharePoint and
Teams, as well as how to modify your existing webparts to surface them inTeams.
All of the code included in the demo will be available on GitHub after the session.
@koskila | https://www.koskila.net

Extending MicrosoftTeams with SPFx
webparts

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Who’s speaking?
• Antti K. Koskela, Escalation Engineer for
Valo Solutions
• From Finland, 2017 USA, 2018 Montréal
• A dev since 2004 (an accountant before
that, started with PHP, then Java,
eventually C#)
• Bending and twisting SharePoint into
different shapes since MOSS
• Blogging at https://www.koskila.net and
https://www.valointranet.com !

Jyväskylä
Montréal
Nashville

Session
The session will include a quick overview and a few demos of
the capabilities of:
Overview ofTeams & its extensibility scenarios
What is SPFx ?
How do they work together?
3 demos:
How to create a new SPFx webpart to be used withTeams
How to import a previously existing webpart toTeams
How to modernize a webpart you already have running in your
environment.

Session: Structure
A quick look intoTeams (5 mins)
A quick look into SFPx (5 mins)
An overview ofTeams extensibility (5 mins)
SPFx +Teams (5 mins)
Demos (30 mins)
Discussion (5 mins)

Session: Goals
The attendees (that’s you!) are familiar with:
Teams extensibility and SPFx
The basics of developing SPFx webparts to be used both in
SharePoint andTeams
How to modify your existing webparts to surface them in
Teams.

Your turn!

Are/were you …
A developer?
An IT Pro?
A power user?
UsingTeams?
Familiar with SPFx?
Familiar withTeams extensions?
Here last year?

Teams – why should I care?

“To empower every person and every organization on the
planet to achieve more.”
Microsoft’s mission statement.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about
Teams (both free and enterprise version) possess a huge role in this.

@koskila | https://www.koskila.nethttps://slideplayer.com/slide/13397477/

Teams adoption is huge and growing
91 of Fortune100 useTeam
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2019/03/19/microsoft-teams-experiences-intelligent-workplace/
https://office365itpros.com/2019/01/31/teams-growth-accelerating/

Adoption in IT companies
Spiceworks’ business chat app report
November 2018
https://www.spiceworks.com/press/releases/spiceworks-study-reveals-adoption-of-microsoft-teams-accelerating-in-the-workplace/

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams/NEW-Teams-IT-architecture-posters-published/td-p/480928

SPFx
A new thing, again?

SPFx vs “Traditional” SharePoint
SharePoint Framework
Client-side execution model
Rendered & executed in page context
Only way to customize modern pages
Open source cross-platform tooling
Responsive, accessible & mobile friendly
Scoped to tenant or site
Limited to creating client-side web parts
& UI extensions
Farm solutions
• Full server-side API
• Only supported in on-premises
environments
• Built withVisual Studio on
Windows
• Scoped to farm
• Build web parts, timer jobs,
event receivers, feature
receivers, etc.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-sharepoint-framework-spfx-mark-kashman/

SPFx vs “classic” client-side options
• Script EditorWebParts
• Obvious choice of developers for customizing DOM on classic SharePoint sites.
• Script can be edited by any user with permissions
• Cannot be added to “NoScript” sites
• App Parts
• Developed using Add-in model (iframe)
• Cannot access DOM of SharePoint page
• Development and deployment is complicated, performance is questionable
• SPFxWebParts
• Client side web parts, leverages modern JavaScript frameworks
• Can be used with classic or modern SharePoint pages
• Development can be complicated, but at least the community is good and
possible side effects are limited

Teams Extensibility

Teams Extensibility
Tabs (Team and Personal)
Bots
Connectors
Messaging extensions
Activity feed integrations
Outgoing web hooks

Teams Extensibility
Using SPFx is not necessarily – it’s just one scenario!
Citizen Developer scenarios:
ExtendTeams with Flow (https://flow.microsoft.com/en-
us/blog/introducing-the-flow-tab-in-teams-and-new-teams-triggers/
)
QnA Maker & Bot Framework enable no-code bots forTeams (and
other channels): https://thomy.tech/how-to-create-your-own-qa-
bot-for-microsoft-teams-with-no-code/

Teams + SPFx

SharePoint as the hosting platform for your MicrosoftTeams solutions
SharePoint
Online
js
JavaScript Library
js
JavaScript Library
Office 365 public CDN
js
SPFxTeams solutions are deployed to
Office 365 tenants using tenant app
catalog-Typical options for the sppkg
file packaging and hosting available.
SPFxTeams
Application
SPFxTeams application exposed in the
MicrosoftTeams as a tab (IFrame).Assets
are hosted in SharePoint and published to
Teams using standardTeams model.
All typical configuration available as for
any SPFx solution – like asset
packaging, CDN configuration, asset
provisioning etc.
1
2
3
Objective:Simplifydeploymentand
hostingfordevelopers.Remove
requirementsforAzureADspecificappsor
configurationsthroughAzureAdminUI

ExtendingTeams in practice

Business value
• The demos show how to
develop or reuse your SPFx
webparts inTeams
• Single effort -> multiple
channels

DEMO 1
How to create a new extension
using SPFx?

How
Following these steps:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
us/sharepoint/dev/spfx/web-parts/get-
started/using-web-part-as-ms-teams-tab

DEMO 2
How to modernize an existing
SPFx webpart to work in
Teams?

DEMO 2
• AddTeams manifest
• Surface same webpart in bothTeams and
SharePointOnline

What’s next?
• So, first step ofTeamsifying an SPFx webpart is easy
• You might run into issues with authentication, pop-ups, style inconsistencies or your webpart
trying to navigate elsewhere
• Most of the stuff probably works in browser, desktop could cause issues
• Improvement:
• RecognizeTeams context and make styles compatible

DEMO 3
Update the webpart to
actually function withTeams.

DEMO 3
1. Reupload a dev version of the package
2. Verify it’s now loaded from localhost
3. Update to SFPx 1.8
4. Grab the context if it exists
5. Adjust the styles
6. Reload in browser and enjoy

Using App Studio to create manifests

Conclusions & Final words

Conclusions
• Teams:
• Microsoft’s Hub for collaboration
• SPFx:
• Client-side framework for building SharePoint extensions
• Teams + SPFx:
• Develop with SPFx = works inTeams and SharePoint
• Demo 1:
• Creating a new SPFx webpart that’s compatible from the get-go
• Demo 2:
• Surfacing your SPFx webpart inTeams
• Demo 3:
• Modifying your existing SPFx webparts to be compatible withTeams

Discussion

Resources & Further reading
• Code samples:
• https://github.com/koskila/sp-dev-fx-
webparts/commits/moderncalendarteamsdemo_v2/samples/js-modern-calendar
• Microsoft’s guides etc:
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/spfx/web-parts/get-started/using-
web-part-as-ms-teams-tab
• My blog post containing slides, code, etc:
• Will be published at https://www.koskila.net/?p=4278

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Feedback, Ideas,
Questions? Let’s connect!
• antti@valointranet.com
• @koskila
• www.koskila.net
• https://github.com/koskila
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/koski
la/

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