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What’s New in the MTC? September 2023 – Community Ranks
So what I have read so far is all developers now have to have a minimum of a Doctorate degree and a bunch of time to build a simple site. I have been developing SharePoint sites for over 23 years and what I have always found is stay away from developing in the backend of the box, name your CSS different than microsofts, CAML queries for dynamics are best, make the site simple for people to use, don't give users the same ability as the developers, based on permissions show items required for a group of users querying the permissions group. The only thing that I truly like vs SharePoint designer workflows is Power Automate. However, microsoft changes faster than you can enjoy a good product for them to make a worse product. Bringing back SharePoint Designer for use would make my life so much easier than spending months on SPFx and NodeJS that has been driving me crazy with errors everywhere I can't fix. I'm done with that and have been trying to build a blank page and incorporate what I know in JavaScript inside. It has been a challenge since microsoft has taken away the best and kept the worst of SharePoint. I know alot of people love the SPFx stuff because they love spending hours and hours coding and trying to do work-a-rounds for almost everything. Me I love making SharePoint pages with less than 1000 lines of code. Reading some of the SPFx code examples is more than 20k lines of code for simple stuff. Us old school types can get the job done bigger and better our way. Please stop going back in time. I remember having the problems I am facing now before SharePoint Designer in 2003 with Team Foundation Server. Bringing it back? Seriously did you really believe that it would magically get better?
