Will Modern Pages ever allow "Web Part Connections" (to link related lists)? How about "Filters"?

Hello everyone, great conversation topic!

Let me try to provide some clarity on this topic. First, my name is Luca Bandinelli and the PM owner of the SharePoint Framework under the SharePoint Engineering Team.

As part of SharePoint Framework (SPFx) we released a new feature called Dynamic Data which basically brings the same capability of part to part communications (and much more!) to the Modern SharePoint User Experience.

This feature, initially released in version 1.5 of SPFx framework, is currently marked as "Developer Preview"; this means you can use it for testing and even for prototyping but it's not recommended to be used in production environments as some APIs can change in behaviors before we release the feature for production. And backward compatibility with Preview features is not guaranteed.

We are however working very hard to make it production ready sometime this calendar year.

in the meantime, here are some pointers to start getting familiar with Dynamic Data:

• SPFx 1.5 Release: https://github.com/SharePoint/sp-dev-docs/wiki/Release-Notes-for-SharePoint-Framework-Package-v1.5
• GitHub example from our community member showing Dynamic Data in Action: https://github.com/SharePoint/sp-dev-fx-webparts/tree/master/samples/react-events-dynamicdata
• Documentation (Developer Preview): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/spfx/dynamic-data

Last, if you are planning to come to Microsoft Ignite, we will have sessions where we will present Dynamic Data capabilities both for end users and developers.

Thanks,

Luca