Widget Wrangler Webcast and New Release

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Widget Wrangler Webcast and New Release

Here’s a quick update on the Widget Wrangler – the light-weight JavaScript framework that helps you build flexible widgets that can be used in SharePoint content editor web parts, add-in parts, or really pretty much everywhere.

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The Widget Wrangler was featured in a webcast on Channel 9 today (Video has been removed). The Office team’s Vesa Juvonen interviewed WW creators Julie Turner and Bob German, who explained the framework and demonstrated how to use it with AngularJS, jQuery, and plain old JavaScript.

Also today we’re pleased to announce the release of Widget Wrangler version 1.0.1. This new version is backward compatible with the old one; the new release includes:

  • CSS Support – Allows packaging CSS references from within your widget; the Widget Wrangler will efficiently load each CSS file once on each page, even if it’s referenced by multiple widgets
  • Multi-module support – Allows bootstrapping multiple AngularJS modules within a widget (thanks to Peter Wasonga for the feature suggestion; Peter writes widgets in Kenya)
  • A new TypeScript sample; the Widget Wrangler works the same with TypeScript or JavaScript; this is mainly useful to show how to develop an AnuglarJS widget in TypeScript
  • Improved/reorganized documentation

You can get the new release on our Github repo at https://github.com/Widget-Wrangler/ww. The Widget Wrangler is also a part of the [Microsoft](https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=47.6395972222,-122.12845&spn=0.01,0.01&q=47.6395972222,-122.12845 (Microsoft)&t=h “Microsoft”) OfficeDev Patterns and Practices library, and will be updated there in the next PnP release.

Thanks to everyone for your interest and support, and happy widget writing!