My name is Paul Papanik-Stork. I'm the owner and principal architect at Don't Papanik Consulting. I specialize primarily in consulting on Office 365, SharePoint, SharePoint Online, and Dynamics CRM. So I've been working with SharePoint since 2004. We won't count in the predecessor products. I work all the way back to site server, commerce server, the first edition. But I've been working with SharePoint since SharePoint 2003, and I've always kind of straddled the fence. So I've been both an IT pro and a dev all these years and do a little bit of both. So I haven't spent as much time as I would like. Most of the work that I do nowadays is more architecture and governance and best practices. But in order to do things like migrations from older systems to newer systems, you have to keep up to date with how you do customizations and how you do development work in the new environments. And so I've been playing around with the SharePoint framework since it came out in beta about a year ago. Haven't actually done a full project on it yet, so it's all been playing with it in the lab just trying to learn how it works. So I really think this is probably one of the spots where Microsoft is starting to get the development story right. Most of my background is in the server side coding section of the world, and so I've spent a lot of time working with C-Sharp and all of that. And this comes a little bit closer with TypeScript, a little bit more familiar territory than some of the other stuff. I think also it's a nice replacement. What I've tended to see in a lot of my clients is instead of using add-ins where you are kind of segregated off into your own little piece, they've started moving more in the direction of using JavaScript injection, using content editor web parts to put things on the page. And in an enterprise environment that just really doesn't scale as a development effort. It works, but it works in a one-off kind of an arrangement. It doesn't really work if you're working with a team or working in an enterprise kind of an environment. And SharePoint Framework is going to provide the ability to actually manipulate the document object model directly on the page, access it with direct JavaScript, and do a lot of stuff that you need to be able to do within the context of the site without having to go to something that's not really long-term supportable like inserting script into a content editor web part on the page. So I would say my favorite part of the framework is probably, I gotta list two things. One, I really am enjoying learning TypeScript. I've played around with JavaScript since they started to use it for client-side development in SharePoint. And for the most part, I've just found it a hard go. I come out of a background with strongly typed languages and object-oriented procedures. And moving to TypeScript just feels a lot more familiar to the object orientation and the strongly typed model and so forth than JavaScript has ever felt. The other piece that I really like is the ability to implement and manipulate directly the document object model. The ability to actually work directly with the HTML I think is a really strong piece of this and really enjoy using that part of the framework. The piece that I'd really like to see them add is something that plugs into the traditional tooling. Not so much that it would be nice if they could develop something where you could actually write in C-sharp and have it translate, but I won't hold my breath for that. But at least the ability to work directly in Visual Studio and have it compile and deploy from there instead of having to go to a completely different tool chain. And I know there's a community effort at this point to do some stuff for Visual Studio, but it would be nice if that was officially supported. So the one thing I would change is essentially what I just said. I'd really like to see direct Visual Studio support for the ability. Yo and Gulp and all of the new tool chain is just, it's too much of a learning curve. It's bad enough that you're having to learn a whole new language with TypeScript, but then to throw in a whole new set of tools. And it's not that they're bad tools, but as soon as the first time that I looked at Yo and I saw that little face sticking out at me from the character arrangement, I'm going, wait, when did we go back to the mainframe world? Because that's the way we used to do things. It would be nice to have something that was implemented in an IDE instead of being completely command line driven. I think the biggest challenge, and this has been for me, and I think it is going to be the biggest challenge for most developers is the tool chain. It's just a very, very steep learning curve. Developers, especially traditional developers, are going to go through a fairly steep learning curve already just to get off of server side languages and onto TypeScript and then to throw a whole new IDE, a whole new development tool chain at them just really makes it insurmountable. And a lot of people just don't go there because it's just too much to take in. So I have mixed feelings about the future of SharePoint Framework. I do think it's going to stick around. I think it is headed in the right direction. One of the pieces that I would really encourage Microsoft to look at is moving it out of the realm of just doing document object model manipulation of web parts and being able to do something that can manipulate the entire page. I don't think you're going to see that, but I do think you're going to see a lot of additional extensions to extend the tooling out to other things like the extensions that are currently in preview, something to get at remote event receivers, some better story to tie into server side code in remote systems like provider hosted apps. That's where I think you're going to see it headed. I think they're going to avoid going to manipulation of the full page object model, which is kind of a shame, but that would lead people to start doing complete rewrites of the look and feel of the page, which is where I think a lot of people want to go and where Microsoft would just soon they not go. So my advice to a developer who's just starting in, and this is assuming that you're a developer coming kind of from my background of server side development, is I would really encourage you to stick to learning at first using just straight JavaScript without any kind of an additional framework like knock out or react or anything like that on top of it, because I think that just adds to the amount that you have to learn and there's enough of a steep learning curve already. Once you've learned to do the SharePoint framework with just pure JavaScript, then you can start throwing in the bells and whistles of adding react or knock out or one of the other frameworks to get a lot of additional kind of stuff. The other thing that I would really encourage and this kind of goes back to the old days when I first started teaching SharePoint development, back when we first started teaching people how to write web parts, Microsoft came up with these wizard driven systems which usually worked. The problem was that they were kind of black boxes and if it worked it worked and if it didn't work because people never dug into the black box and figured out where the components really resided and what they did, they didn't know how to troubleshoot things. So I would really recommend people to take that project template that Yeoman generates and make sure that you go through that entire list of files and try and figure out what each of those files is there for, because there's a pile of files that are in that project that nobody ever talks about, nobody ever touches, but they've got to be there for some reason and so you've got to get behind the scenes and figure out how the black box is put together or when something doesn't work you'll never be able to troubleshoot.


So if you've seen in the news recently, it's very apparent that lots of people are going to try and raid area 51 Now I'm going to put my opinions on this to one side for the moment And I'm just going to share what I think is fairly obvious about this and what I think you will also agree with me as fairly obvious about this whole Situation this whole area 51 thing right because I'm sure you've seen lots and lots of people talking about this So here's my opinion in my take on this Area 51 is a military compound which is Almost always heavily guarded with a lot of firepower. They've got a lot of guns They've got a lot of advanced weapons technology at the site And they make it very clear that if you go near area 51 if you cross the boundary, you will be killed So it begs the question. Why would you want to go there? Well, it's traditionally been seen as a place where lots of alien activity has been hidden Secrets are Withheld there. There's lots of things that people want to know about area 51 But I don't think storming it is the best way of doing that because like I say they legally can just shoot people They've made that very clear and no matter how many people storm this place They indeed can stop all of you and they probably will so here's what I would suggest instead, okay? and and this is by the way a far more effective way of Learning maybe what is included in area 51 learning more about it and basically just a sensible thing to do here for smart people, right? Don't go and storm area 51 because it's likely that harm will come to you. Okay, but what you should do Keep engaging with these pieces of content on social media because the more attention it gets The more likely it is that secrets and things will be disclosed and revealed and That is ultimately the only reason we would want to storm area 51 in the first place is to actually get the information And reveal the secrets, right? The more attention this gets the more likely something will be revealed or Discovered about area 51 or about a similar base because let's face it area 51 is old news now It's been almost a source of it's been the butt of many jokes and it's been very commonly known to be linked to aliens So let's let's be honest like let's think about this for a second guys If there were secret things like alien weapon technology and spaceships at area 51 Don't you think they would have moved them? You know the first time it was mentioned in any sort of public capacity They probably would right so the chances are there's nothing there anyway and Really the secret stuff and the really exciting juicy Information that we all want to find out is probably in other bases other hidden bases things We haven't even heard of or don't even know exist But by bringing attention to area 51 in this way It does a few things it opens people's minds to the possibility that things are being hidden from us It opens people's curiosity. It makes us stop the subject interesting Okay, it's gone viral the whole idea of storm area 51 has gone viral And for good reason people want to know what is actually there, but like I say probably nothing Let's let's be honest. It's probably nothing there There was something there, but it's more than likely been moved. Okay, and even if there was something there There's not an easy way of actually getting to it because like I say heavily guarded one of the most heavily guarded places in the world So here's so what do you do?  You can either do nothing, right or you can Actually storm area 51 bad idea because you might get hurt You have no idea what they're gonna do really Number three bring attention to it by interacting with it on social media sharing it on your pages Facebook Twitter Instagram Whatever YouTube Talking about it and getting people's attention on the subject not only of just storm area 51 because that's you know That's like a a term a trend almost What what's the subject behind storm area 51? Well, the topic is Things are being hidden from us by government at many levels in many countries and so really the goal should be To uncover those secrets and to find out what the truth is about many things not just alien activity But all sorts of things so really I would say engage with these things, you know share storm area 51 content and ideas and whatever Probably don't actually do it But just try and with everyone you talk about this with try and increase your critical thinking asking questions being logical, but also being curious and asking Questions that you might think you know the answers to but things that you probably don't really know the answers to right And what I mean by that is don't take everything that you're told or that you see in the news in the media Don't take that as the truth Because the chances are very high that it's not the truth, you know, maybe it's been manipulated or maybe the narrative Has been structured in a way to benefit the news companies or the people who control the news company I'm not gonna go too deep with this stuff But just in a nutshell don't storm area 51. Okay, they can stop all of you Instead just share the content engage with it and Build a conversation around this stuff not just area 51, but other bases. What are the government doing? Okay, what what secret things what hidden things and agendas are actually going on Those are the important questions not what's in area 51 because like I said probably nothing anyway And the last thing you can do of course is if you really are intent on this epic battle in area 51 and storming the gates Just do it in a lucid dream You know if you're new if you've come across this video because on the off chance It's gone viral or something like that then this channel and my videos I normally talk about lucid dreaming and how to control what you dream about Which is obviously the perfect conditions for Storming a military complex without getting injured so do that give it a try and Until next time guys, just try and think a bit more try and use critical thought and curiosity To actually learn more about the world. Don't just accept everything. You're presented as if it was 100% true because in most cases It's not done. 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