| title | description | ms.date | ms.localizationpriority | ms.service |
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Tools and environments for developing SharePoint Add-ins |
Create a development environment for SharePoint Add-ins on a SharePoint Online site or an on-premises farm. |
09/26/2023 |
high |
sharepoint |
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There are two basic patterns for development environments for SharePoint Add-ins. The test and debugging SharePoint website can be on:
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A SharePoint Online website in an Office 365 subscription. Typically, Visual Studio is installed to a local computer, but a cloud-based Visual Studio is also an option.
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An on-premises, one-server SharePoint farm. Visual Studio is installed on the same computer.
Consider the following:
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Almost any add-in that you create can be deployed to either SharePoint Online or to on-premises SharePoint farms, regardless of which type of environment you use. As a general rule, add-ins that cannot be deployed to SharePoint Online also cannot be developed with it; for example: add-ins that require Full Control permissions and add-ins that use the high-trust authorization system.
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You can develop both SharePoint-hosted and provider-hosted SharePoint Add-ins, regardless of which type of environment you use.
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You can have both on-premises and SharePoint Online test sites.
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All things considered, the two options are equally easy to set up.
To create the SharePoint Online environment by using a SharePoint Online subscription that you can use for development, see Create a developer site on an existing Office 365 subscription.
To create the on-premises environment, see Set up an on-premises development environment for SharePoint Add-ins.
Note
This topic is only concerned with environments for developing SharePoint Add-ins. If you plan to develop farm solutions, see Set up a general development environment for SharePoint.
If you plan to do both kinds of development, start with the latter article, and then see Set up an on-premises development environment for SharePoint Add-ins for additional steps you need to develop SharePoint Add-ins.