Introduction To Simplified JavaScript Library For SharePoint

Introduction

In the modern tech world, most applications revolve around client side development. SharePoint also concentrated most on client side development from SharePoint 2010 onwards by introducing the different types of client side APIs.

Below are the commonly used APIs to access SharePoint objects from the client side. They are,

• Managed Client Side Object Model
• SharePoint JavaScript Object Model
• REST API
• Web Services

Developing applications by using the above models requires developers to spend a lot of time in development. The client side models require the below process to retrieve the result,

• To establish the connection to the SharePoint site.
• Queue and bundle the request
• Sending the bundled request to the server
• Retrieve and render the result

PnP-JS-Core – A JavaScript Library for SharePoint

To simplify the developer's life instead of writing too many lines to process the above steps, the PnP (Patterns and Practices) team created a lot of helper and utility methods and named it PnP JS Core Library.

• Patterns and Practices SharePoint JavaScript Library 1.0.0
• PnP JSCore 1.0.1