A message below appeared in our Office 365 tenant last week on Friday.

Office 365 Feature Update: Deploy and use SharePoint Framework client side web parts

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We are giving you the ability to deploy and use SharePoint Framework client side web parts in Office 365. You’ll begin seeing this change starting today. We are only rolling this out to First Release customers, at this time.

How does this affect me?

Developers can build client-side web parts using the SharePoint Framework. With this update, those developers can now use and test their parts in the context of SharePoint. Administrators can take those SharePoint Framework Client-side Solutions and deploy them via their App Catalog to make them available within their organization. Site owners can then use SharePoint Framework client-side web parts in Classic and Modern pages. Note: The SharePoint Framework is in Developer Preview. Elements of the developer interface may change between now and general availability, which may interrupt the function of parts built on the Developer Preview.

What do I need to do to prepare for this change?

There is no action you need to take to prepare for this change. Please click Additional Information to learn more.

Additional information

Published by Chirag Patel @techChirag

Chirag is an independent Microsoft 365 consultant at Patel Consulting, and Microsoft MVP (Office & Apps Services), based in UK with more than 20 years of industry experience. He is also a BCS (British Computer Society) Member & Chartered IT Professional, Microsoft 365 Certified Enterprise Administrator Expert, MCT (Microsoft Certified Trainer) and TOGAF9 Certified Architect. He works with a wide variety of clients in many sectors, designing and implementing business collaboration, data and information management solutions and services based on Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and Microsoft 365 technologies, Power Platform to create business value for both themselves and their customers, including UK Microsoft Gold Partners with deployment, upgrade and migration services delivery. Chirag is an active Microsoft 365 community participant, frequent speaker at local and international events including Microsoft 365 Saturdays, Power Saturdays, SharePoint Saturdays, Collab365, TeamsFest, Modern Workplace Summit and Scottish Summit. You can follow Chirag on twitter at @techChirag. View all posts by Chirag Patel @techChirag