Jenkins NS - Building Solutions with Microsoft Teams: Understanding the Teams App Developer Platform

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Microsoft Teams is the new modern way to communicate, collaborate, and enable teamwork as everyone is now looking for flexible approaches to the work environment. There are many collaborations, communications, and teamwork tools available. However, when it comes to a one-stop solution to work in a way that is simple, flexible, and effective, Microsoft Teams is the only solution that tops it all. Now that everyone is working remotely, Microsoft Teams provides the best way for employees to collaborate extensively from remote locations; from any devices like mobiles, laptops, and browsers; and without the risk of governance and security compliance.

Today Microsoft Teams provides a platform to automate business processes, and the customer wants to customize their workplace, especially as they are working with a group of people working jointly on many of the same projects. If you are reading this book and you are looking for a solution to extend your teams platform with your line of business, then you are in the right place.

Microsoft Teams is an extensible platform with many capabilities like tab, bot, task modules, messaging extension, webhooks, connectors, and solution accelerators like SPFx, Power Platform. You can create custom apps for an individual, team, group of people, and your organization.

This book helps you to build, test, and deploy apps for your lines of business. The book has 11 chapters and it provides detailed descriptions about the apps and contains many examples with step-by-step descriptions of how to build, test, and deploy locally; and be the host for a production environment. This book helps you to learn basic to advanced apps development with your existing client-side development model using JavaScript. Moreover, this book provides an invaluable resource for those who are planning to extend their Microsoft Teams platform with their line of business apps.

I thank my Lord and savior Jesus Christ for making my dream come true.

I would like to thank everyone at Apress for giving me this opportunity to publish my first book. Thank you to Matthew Moodie, my editor, for supporting my writing endeavors and helping me to achieve this dream.

I would also like to thank the technical reviewer, Mr. Vijai Anand, for his valuable suggestions and comments.