Deploying SharePoint Framework solutions

Deploying is often a manual task, as you'll need to be certain you are deploying things correctly and that there are no issues with your solution. As things are bound to be different in SharePoint compared to a local debug run, this phase might also produce additional things you'll need to fix in your code.

App Catalog

Deploying SharePoint Framework packages happens through a special site called the App Catalog in SharePoint.

Verify that you have App Catalog correctly provisioned before moving on to installing your app:

1. Navigate to your SharePoint admin center as a global admin or a SharePoint admin of your tenant. The direct link is https://{tenant}-admin.sharepoint.com/, where {tenant} is obviously your chosen tenant name, such as CompanyA. If you're deploying code to a locally hosted SharePoint, you need to create the App Catalog manually through central admin first.
2. From the left-hand navigation, choose apps and then choose App Catalog:

3. If you haven...