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Developing SharePoint 2013 Solutions with JavaScript

by David Mann

This course takes you from 0 to 60 in your SharePoint JavaScript development, starting from a basic review of core concepts to detailed coverage of everything you need to know to include JavaScript as part of your SharePoint solutions.

What you'll learn

SharePoint 2013 has promoted JavaScript to a first-class language with which all SharePoint developers must be familiar. User expectations and the "state of the web" have made it critically important for all SharePoint developers to be able to write solid, reliable, performant JavaScript. This course takes you from 0 to 60 in your SharePoint JavaScript development, starting from a basic review of core concepts to detailed coverage of everything you need to know to include JavaScript as part of your SharePoint solutions. This includes coverage of the enhanced REST interface, the JavaScript Object Model, key third-party libraries as well as how to take advantage of out-of-the-box capabilities provided by SharePoint. Along the way, modern JavaScript capabilities are put to use in both the presentation materials as well as the demonstrations. Those new to JavaScript as well as experienced developers will find the material in this course helps them understand and get better at developing SharePoint 2013 Solutions with JavaScript.

Table of contents

Programming Security in SharePoint with JavaScript Object Model
17mins
Final Thoughts for Part 1
10mins

About the author

Dave is the co-founder and CTO of Heirloom Software, a start-up using technology (including user-experience design, application development and big-data disciplines) to revolutionize the family-history and genealogy world. He has been "working with computers" for over 20 years, is an 11-time Microsoft MVP, and full-stack web developer, trainer and author focusing on JavaScript, NodeJS, document DBs and C#. He presents regularly at both technical and genealogy conferences.

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