Would you recommend these samples

[davidchesnut]

Let us know what you think about the samples in this repo. Would you recommend them? If you have any specific feedback or suggestions, please open a discussion here and let us know more.

[McL-M]

I'm learning and trying to develop a simple Outlook add-in. Without these samples, trying to do so would be absolutely impossible.

So, first and foremost: Thank you!

Now the "but"! (You knew it was coming.) They could still be better and make things easier. My particular case is an example.

I want to make my add-in secure and modern. SSO seems the obvious choice. I also want it to be modular and scalable. Separate projects for the frontend and backend seems the obvious choice. But all the templates for SSO combine the frontend and the "middle-tier" (my backend) into one project.

Now I'm confused. Should I use monolithic architecture or separate the different components? And if it's the latter, separating out the middle-tier components becomes extremely challenging.

[davidchesnut]

Answered at OfficeDev/Office-Addin-TaskPane-SSO-JS#88

[McL-M]

Just a short follow-up:

A separated set of templates for the add-in frontend and the middle-tier (and backend) would be just wonderful and make this question a non-issue. I think that would be a nice addition to the collection and make it more accessible to newcomers!

[mojofawad]

Mostly yes!

However I wish there were more examples. I'm uncomfortable with my implementation of the reactor-router-dom. I got it working, but examples were few and far between.

I'm a junior dev, but I do a lot of PoCs. It's been a great learning experience, but sometimes I could use a bit more out-of-the-box samples.

[davidchesnut]

Hi @mojofawad, We recently announced and posted samples for using nested app authentication for SSO. This is a simpler approach since you don't need to set up a middle-tier server and can write code completely as a single-page application. Would be curious to hear your feedback on the samples.

• https://github.com/OfficeDev/Office-Add-in-samples/tree/main/Samples/auth/Office-Add-in-SSO-NAA
• https://github.com/OfficeDev/Office-Add-in-samples/tree/main/Samples/auth/Outlook-Add-in-SSO-NAA

Thanks!

[mojofawad]

I will definitely check it out! Thank you for this.

I haven't touched auth too much, but this is definitely helpful and applicable to a couple of projects.

[amitprajapatieptura]

Hey Davidchesnut
Is it possible to use this Outlook-Add-in-SSO-NAA solution with plane JavaScript projects? AS my add-in project is build in java script.

[AlexJerabek]

You can use the NAA solutions with JavaScript code. Nothing in the MSAL.js libraries requires TypeScript.