Post 4 covered upgrade.md as it exists today. This companion post proposes four concrete, testable extensions — an explicit rollback path when a report can't be fully applied, an incremental strategy for multi-major-version jumps, running the existing test suite as part of verification, and machine-readable JSON output for agent-driven diffing — each framed as a future contribution to SharePoint/spfx-dev-skills, not a criticism of it.
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The Upgrade Playbook: How AI Agents Should (and Shouldn’t) Touch Your SPFx Version
Scaffolding fails safe — a bad attempt just gets deleted. An upgrade runs against a project that already works, so the cost of getting it wrong is much higher. This post walks the spfx-dev-skills upgrade.md reference end to end: the clean-git-state precondition, version detection via .yo-rc.json, the exact m365 spfx project upgrade commands, applying the report in order without overwriting customizations, and the build-clean bar for calling an upgrade done.
Four Ways We’d Extend SPFx Scaffolding (And the Exact Commands to Test)
Post 2 covered create.md as it exists today. This companion post proposes four concrete, testable extensions — scaffold commands for Library and Adaptive Card Extension, a workflow for adding components to an existing solution, the --sharepoint-version flag for on-premises targets, and a post-scaffold validation/commit step — each framed as a future contribution to SharePoint/spfx-dev-skills, not a criticism of it.
Stop Letting AI Hang on yo @microsoft/sharepoint: Non-Interactive SPFx Scaffolding
Interactive Yeoman prompts are invisible to AI coding agents — they hang, or worse, pick the wrong menu item. This post walks the official spfx-dev-skills create.md reference line by line: environment checks with m365 spfx doctor, the fully flag-based scaffold command for web parts and extensions, dependency install discipline, and toolchain-aware packaging for Heft vs. gulp.
Your AI Coding Agent Doesn’t Know SPFx — Here’s the Skill Pack That Fixes It
AI coding agents hang on interactive Yeoman prompts, invent package versions, and hand-roll UI instead of using Fluent UI — because generic training data doesn't know SharePoint Framework's narrow conventions. SharePoint/spfx-dev-skills is an official agent skill pack that fixes this: this post breaks down what it is, how it's structured, and two rules worth adopting today even without an AI agent.
The Future of SPFx Scaffolding: Roadmap, GA Timeline, and What’s Coming Next
`@microsoft/spfx-cli` is targeting GA around September 2026 — though as of this writing that date looks increasingly likely to slip, and Microsoft's own sources disagree on whether it ships with SPFx 1.24 or 1.25. After GA, the Yeoman generator receives its final update. This post covers the Phase 2 and 3 roadmap, the MCP server front-end for AI-assisted scaffolding, and how SPFx developers can prepare today.
Custom Templates and CI/CD with `@microsoft/spfx-cli`
`@microsoft/spfx-cli` is designed for automation. This post covers custom org templates, CI/CD integration with GitHub Actions, air-gapped scaffolding, the scaffold log, and the `@microsoft/spfx-template-api` SDK for programmatic use in enterprise tooling.
Yeoman vs. @microsoft/spfx-cli: The Complete Developer Comparison
@microsoft/spfx-cli wins on CI/CD, open-source templates, and custom org template support. Yeoman still leads on interactive wizard experience and adding components to existing projects. Here is the full comparison to help you decide when to switch.#spfx #m365 #sharepoint #microsoft #spfx-cli
Getting Started with @microsoft/spfx-cli: Scaffold Your First Project in Seconds
@microsoft/spfx-cli replaces the Yeoman-based SPFx generator with a single npm install and a scriptable spfx create command. This tutorial walks through installation, all 17 available templates, and the full path from install to npm run build. #spfx #m365 #sharepoint #microsoft #spfx-cli
Why Microsoft Is Retiring Yeoman: Introducing @microsoft/spfx-cli
Microsoft has published @microsoft/spfx-cli, a new open-source CLI designed to replace the decade-old Yeoman-based SPFx generator. This post explains the four structural problems that drove the decision and what the new tool means for SPFx developers today. #spfx #m365 #sharepoint #microsoft #spfx-cli