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Modern Page Experience availability in SharePoint 2016 On-Prem Server
No Modern Pages but how about Modern Libraries and Lists? They should be available?
No modern lists or libraries on SharePoint 2016 on-premises. The only 'modern' thing you get is that you can use SPFx to build custom web parts. You can add your custom SPFx web parts to classic pages in SharePoint 2016. I am actually doing exactly that right now for one of my clients. SharePoint 2016 on-premises does not have modern team sites, does not have modern communication sites, and does not have any of the modern web parts (modern web parts cannot be installed on classic pages anyway). At the SharePoint Conference NA in Las Vegas last week (May 21) we learned that SharePoint 2019 on-premises will support modern team sites, modern communication sites and modern web parts (yay!) but not hub sites (doh!).
I will be interested in how you get on with your custom SPFx web Part for SharePoint 2016. I fancy building one of these to say leverage graph, once my P1s are cleared. You sticking to React or going down the Angular route
In the meantime it's, trying to reproduce some of the modern UI such as the 'floating footer' using Action scripts. I also need to make the menu a bit "mega menu like".
As for SharePoint 2019, the reason it doesn't support hubs is they have already taken a Office 365 code fork in January. It is also the reason why SharePoint 2016 will never ( ever) support the modern look. MS can't scale to 2 massive git repos.
