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Iron Contributor

May 11, 2017

How do we deploy SPFx Web Parts to a Private CDN on O365?

Vesa Juvonen, There's plenty of documentation showing how the Public CDN works with SPFx web parts, but very little (or no) discussion of how the Private CDN would work for hosting the web part j...

VesaJuvonen
May 16, 2017
You cannot deploy SPFx solutions using private CDN at least currently. This is due the fact that the private CDN URL is changing and is not static, which is needed, so that you can define web part host URL in the web part manifest.

Few pointers

Client-side web part JS files only contain JS script - not secrets or actual information, so there should not be any concerns from that perspective around hosting them from public CDN

If you still would like to get them hosted from fully secured URL, you'd use simply directly for example library in SharePoint without any CDN capabilities and you'd update the manifest URLs to point to that one

Hopefully that clarifies the situation.

VesaJuvonen

Microsoft

May 16, 2017

You cannot deploy SPFx solutions using private CDN at least currently. This is due the fact that the private CDN URL is changing and is not static, which is needed, so that you can define web part host URL in the web part manifest.

Few pointers

Client-side web part JS files only contain JS script - not secrets or actual information, so there should not be any concerns from that perspective around hosting them from public CDN
If you still would like to get them hosted from fully secured URL, you'd use simply directly for example library in SharePoint without any CDN capabilities and you'd update the manifest URLs to point to that one

Hopefully that clarifies the situation.

Joseph Ackerman
Iron Contributor
May 17, 2017
That is excellent information, thank you so much.

>>Client-side web part JS files only contain JS script - not secrets or actual information, so there should not be any concerns from that perspective around hosting them from public CDN<<

I will try to convince my client of this ;)

>>If you still would like to get them hosted from fully secured URL, you'd use simply directly for example library in SharePoint without any CDN capabilities <<

Yes thanks! I actually got this working yesterday. I set the cdnbasepath value to a server-relative path of the library where the bundled JS and JSON files are and it worked perfectly. My only concern was whether the performance would be adequate, but so far it looks good.

>>Hopefully that clarifies the situation.<<

It does indeed. Thanks again!
Niravnvs
Copper Contributor
Jul 12, 2021
Hi @Vesa,
I this still a limitation or latest version of the SPFx Framework have the feature to support private CDN?

Pleaes let me know.
Thanks!