Introduction to Script Lab - A Simplified but powerful way to Office Extendibility

Script Lab is a Microsoft garage project which initiated with summer hackathon held back in 2016. Creator main focus is to build a platform where build add-ins simple and with less knowledge curve for web developers. It is simple but it does not mean it is not powerful. Let's go through below slider where you could kick start on developing Office extended apps.
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More information
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/garage/project-details.aspx?project=script-lab

Github Repository
http://aka.ms/scriptlab

Get Script Lab
https://aka.ms/getscriptlab - install

Office Add-ins UX design patterns
https://github.com/OfficeDev/Office-Add-in-UX-Design-Patterns

Office JS API reference
https://dev.office.com/reference/add-ins/javascript-api-for-office

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Follow linkto Microsoft documentation about details pane.

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