sp-dev-fx-webparts/samples/react-3rd-party-api/README.md

# Consuming Third Party APIs secured with Azure Active Directory within SharePoint Framework

## Summary

This sub folders contains a client-side project that shows how to consume a 3rd party API within SharePoint Framework.

![The UI of the sample application](images/react-3rd-party-api-ui-sample.gif)

In subfolder _Server-API_ you can find the sample REST API built using ASP.NET MVC.
You will need to publish the web application on an hosting environment (for example an Azure App Service), configure CORS, and configure the application in the Azure AD tenant under the cover of your target SharePoint Online tenant.

## Solution

| Solution  | Author(s) |
| ------------- | ------------- |
| react-3rd-party-api  | Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys.com - @PaoloPia)   |

## Version history

| Version  | Date | Comments |
| ------------- | ------------- | ------------- |
| 1.0.0  | February 19th 2018   | Initial release |

## Disclaimer

**THIS CODE IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, MERCHANTABILITY, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.**

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## Build and run the sample

To build and run this client-side project, you will need to clone and build the tutorials project.

Clone this repo by executing the following command in your console:

```
git clone https://github.com/SharePoint/sp-dev-fx-webparts.git
```

Navigate to the cloned repo folder which should be the same as the repo name:

```
cd sp-dev-fx-webparts
```

Navigate to the `tutorials` folder:

```
cd tutorials
```

Navigate to the `specific web part` folder:

```
cd 'subfolder'
```


Now run the following command to install the npm packages:

```
npm install
```

This will install the required npm packages and depedencies to build and run the client-side project.

Once the npm packages are installed, run the command to preview your web parts in SharePoint Workbench:

```
gulp serve
```

<img src="https://telemetry.sharepointpnp.com/sp-dev-fx-webparts/react-3rd-party-api" />