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sivilian
Copper Contributor
Aug 30, 2024

Development Environment

Hello,

 

I have a question about the process of developing in SharePoint Online (modern). 

In developing both web parts and extensions, I find the process very time consuming to the point of it being unreasonable.

 

Whenever I make a change to code, and want to see the results, the automatic compilation does not work for me, or it works sporadically. I have to close the page and kill my server and that takes a few minutes to complete. Between code changes this is ridiculous.  And when I try again, killing my server, closing the page and doing a gulp serve half the time it just hangs, loads the page without my code, or it shows  a previous version. 

 

It is impossible to program this way, and so I am wondering if I am the only one complaining about this? If I missing something obvious please let me know?

 

Thank you

 

 

  • Sounds like there's something wrong with your dev enviroment, have you tried setting it up on another PC or a virutal machine ?
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      sivilian
      Copper Contributor
      Yes. I have tried on a virtual machine, and I have worked on many different projects, but the experience is always the same.

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