How do I get a user's presence by the email address with Microsoft graph toolkit?

Question

In Teams, SharePoint, and Outlook, we see all users' presence. Why can't we get it easily with graph toolkit? How do I get a user's presence by the email address with the Microsoft graph toolkit?

Answer 1

mgt-people / mgt-person / mgt-person-card are planned to have presence added to the next release (v1.3). Here is the pr that introduced the changes. We are planning on releasing this package by next week. You can try it out with the release candidate by installing @microsoft/mgt@v1.3.0-rc.1

Once you have the release candidate. You can run the project with npm start and see the mgt-person component with presence added as below. This is the html that enables this feature: <mgt-person person-query="me" view="twoLines" person-card="hover" show-presence></mgt-person>