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- javascript
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  technologies:
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  createdDate: 9/1/2017 12:00:00 AM
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# Handling Multiple Editions of SPFx Solution

## Summary

This sample shows a possible approach of handling multiple editions (e.g. trial, lite, full) of SharePoint Framework solution.

## Compatibility

| :warning: Important          |
|:---------------------------|
| Every SPFx version is only compatible with specific version(s) of Node.js. In order to be able to build this sample, please ensure that the version of Node on your workstation matches one of the versions listed in this section. This sample will not work on a different version of Node.|
|Refer to <https://aka.ms/spfx-matrix> for more information on SPFx compatibility.   |

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## Applies to

* [SharePoint Framework](https://learn.microsoft.com/sharepoint/dev/spfx/sharepoint-framework-overview)

## Contributors

* [Alex Terentiev](https://github.com/AJIXuMuK)

## Version history

Version|Date|Comments
-------|----|--------
1.0|August 23, 2017|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.**

## Description

### Use Case

You are an ISV and developing some product that has multiple editions, let's say, trial, lite, full. You want to have a separate package file (`.sppkg`) for each edition and also reference different CDNs based on the edition.

### Problems to address

Thinking about the use case in details we can point several problems that should be addressed: 
- When we're creating a new version we should create 3 separate `.sppkg` files
- Each `.sppkg` file should contain manifest that references different CDN endpoints
- It should be easy to upgrade customer from trial to lite and then to full; or directly from trial to full
- You should know current edition in the code to execute the logic based on the edition's restrictions

### Approach

This sample shows the approach that is based on a custom Gulp task that should be run before bundling and packaging the solution.
The name of the task is `change-build-edition`. Parameter: `edition`.
The task updates SPFx solution configuration files to contain edition-specific information:
- deploy-azure-storage.json is updated to contain correct `container` value
- package-solution.json is updated to contain correct `solution.version` and `paths.zippedPackage` values. In this sample I'm using version's revision - 4th digit - to specify the edition: 0 for trial, 1 for lite, 2 for full. It allows to easily update customers. zippedPackage path is modified to create sppkg in subfolder based on edition configuration.
- write-manifests.json is updated to contain the correct CDN endpoint URL.

Additionally, the web part's source code folder contains `custom-config.json` file with `edition` property:
```
{
    "edition": "full"
}
```
This file is modified by a custom task as well to contain the correct edition.
Later `custom-config.json` is referenced (`require('./custom-config.json')`) in web part code to provide custom logic based on current edition.

Use the following commands to build specific edition version:
```
gulp change-build-edition --edition lite
gulp bundle --ship
gulp package-solution --ship
gulp deploy-azure-storage
```

## Resources

[Handling Multiple Editions of SPFx Solution](http://tricky-sharepoint.blogspot.com/2017/08/handling-multiple-editions-of-spfx.html)

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