Sharepoint PNP For Developer

Question

I work on SharePoint programming. I recently became acquainted with a topic called Sharepoin Pnp . What is the nature of sharepoint pnp? When should it be used? What is the connection with Web Part and other SharePoint Programming Parts like CSOM with sharepoint pnp? Thanks for the advice of your dear friends.

Answer 1

SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) is an open source initiative coordinated by SharePoint engineering. It is also a Client Side library which is similiar with CSOM. But it's open source and monthly update.

There is three type library for PnP, Js,C# and PowerShell, you can choose the one you want to use.

For Web Parts, here is the instance which can connect and handle web part:

More information, please refer:

PnP PowerShell overview