Month: October 2018

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Using pnpm with SPFx 1.6.0

When you create a new SharePoint Framework project, you have the option to use different package managers: npm, pnpm or yarn.

For a long time, I completely ignored this and just used npm. Npm is the slowest option from the list above, but it didn’t really matter as I was installing packages once a week or so. But this is not the case anymore. Simple processes, like upgrading your existing solutions to newer versions of the SharePoint Framework can make you go through that process more times than desired.

In my case, my dev laptop takes a very long time to install or delete node modules, so I found myself looking for alternative solutions.

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CSOM PowerShell – add a field to a list content type

Some people will read the title of this blog post and wonder why I’m writing this when there are plenty of samples to do this online. Some of them written a long time ago. It covers a common requirement: add a SharePoint field to a list content type.

But the reason is simple: I wasn’t able to find a single one that worked on a reliable way.

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