Microsoft Graph

Now that you are able to call SharePoint directly through SharePoint Framework, you might be wondering if this is all there is to know about APIs and SharePoint. Sadly or happily, depending on your point of view, there is more!

We will next spend a little bit of time to walk through Microsoft Graph, which, without a doubt, is one of the largest and most ambitious services Office 365 currently supports and uses.

What is Microsoft Graph?

While the topic of Microsoft Graph is very interesting, it's also fairly large, and this book wouldn't be able to accommodate everything there is to know about this service.

In simple terms, Microsoft Graph is a unified platform that offers a single endpoint for accessing Office 365 and certain Microsoft Azure services including Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). This removes the need for developers to learn multiple different APIs, where typically each API acts a little bit differently from each other, depending on the service they communicate...