Building Office Add-ins using Office.js

The everygreen book

This repo is a sample-code and issue-tracking companion to the book "Building Office Add-ins using Office.js" -- an "evergreen" e-book published and purchasable through LeanPub.com.

From the book description:

This book is a guide to Office.js APIs, which are used to build the web-technology-based Office Add-ins. Is describes the principles and design patterns shared by the new 2016+ wave of APIs for Excel, Word, and OneNote -- written by someone who, as member of the Office Extensibility Platform team at Microsoft, had helped design them.

This repo's purpose is to:

#1: Allow me to share the larger code samples and associated assets (e.g., documents with sample data, geared specifically for the scenario).

#2: Provides readers with a way to log and track content issues (and be informed once they are fixed). Issues can be:

• Simple content issues: A misspelling, an incomplete phrase, a sentence that no longer makes sense.
• Requests for additional detail in existing topics.
• Requests for brand new topics. I might already be planning to write something about it eventually, but this will let you subscribe to finding out when the content is made available; and will also help me gauge topic interest.
• Issues with sample code or related assets: code is unclear; the design is sub optimal; something needs a comment; or perhaps an existing comment needs to be clarified or removed.
• Anything else?

#3: Keep track of the Release notes.

If you have questions about specific APIs, please use StackOverflow.

This repo is meant for aggregating book issues -- but the book's purpose is not to cover every single API, but rather to cover the common concepts. If you have a question about a specific API, please use StackOverflow, tagging your question office-js.

In fact, even if your question is about a core concept, I still encourage you to ask it on StackOverflow first, as you'll almost certainly get a quicker response there (and if the response is from me, it might well make it into the book eventually!). This repo is for tracking the issues and topics, but addressing questions is best done through StackOverflow.

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