Ask an AI coding agent for a Fluent UI card and it often hands back a hardcoded div with invented colors, because generic React training data has never heard of SharePoint's theme constraints. This post walks through react-design.md's 16-section "Copilot UI Contract," the SPFx Dev Skills rule set that stops that failure before an agent writes a single component.
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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.
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