sp-dev-fx-webparts/samples/js-workbench-customizer

Workbench customizer

Summary

This sample shows how the Workbench page can be customized to display in a way that better mimics a modern SharePoint page. This is done using CSS overrides on some of the page styles, which does not cause any negative impact on your site as the web part is not intended to be consumed by final users, only developers. The web part also has some properties that control which customizations are applied to the workbench page (all enabled by default). There is also an option to switch the page to Preview after the page is loaded, which gives a UI more close to what end users will see on a published page - this is very useful when doing UI work.

Usage

Deploy to tenant

The easiest way to use the solution is to package it up and deploy to the App Catalog. You can then add the web part to the bottom of the O365 Workbench page when developing your custom solutions.

Run locally

Alternatively, you can add the output files for the web part to a custom SPFx project and the web part will also be served and available both from the local or hosted Workbench page:

• Generate the output files for the solution by executing gulp bundle --ship
• Copy all files from js-workbench-customizer\dist to the dist folder of your custom solution
• Copy the workbenchCustomizer folder from js-workbench-customizer\lib\webparts to the corresponding webparts folder of your custom solution

Note: This approach will not "pollute" your solution with additional resources or dependencies as the SPFx toolchain will ignore those additional files by default when you package your solution. You can also clean everything by running gulp clean as both the lib and dist folders are deleted and recreated again. Git will also ignore dist and lib folders by default, so the files will never be added to source control.

Compatibility

⚠️ 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.

Applies to

• SharePoint Framework

Prerequisites

• Office 365 subscription with SharePoint Online license
• SharePoint Framework development environment already set up.

Solution

Solution	Author(s)
workbench-customizer	Joel Rodrigues

Version history

Version	Date	Comments
1.0	January 24, 2019	Initial release
1.1	February 05, 2020	Update to SPFx 1.10.0
1.2	June 04, 2020	Added full-width support
1.3	July 07, 2020	Simplified web part
1.4	July 28, 2020	Update styles to minimise toolbar overlap
1.5	July 30, 2020	Update styles to improve full-width mode

Minimal Path to Awesome

• Clone this repository
• in the command line run:
  • npm install
  • gulp serve

This sample can also be opened with VS Code Remote Development. Visit https://aka.ms/spfx-devcontainer for further instructions.

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Help

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If you're having issues building the solution, please run spfx doctor from within the solution folder to diagnose incompatibility issues with your environment.

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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.