This is one installment in a series by Voitanos asking experienced SharePoint developers to share their thoughts on the new development model for SharePoint - the SharePoint Framework. In this series, we ask each person a series of questions and let them share their thoughts.

Vincent Biret

MVP Office Servers and Services
Twitter: @baywet
http://bit.ly/vince365
Office 365 and Azure developer, 2toLead

Hi, my name is Vincent. I'm based in Montreal, Canada. I work for 2toLead as an Office 365 and Azure developer. And I'm also an Office Service and Services MVP for three years now. I've been working on SharePoint for a couple of years now.

What’s your background as a SharePoint developer?

So I started working of SharePoint ten years ago would say, first as an IT Pro actually and the biggest thing I liked about SharePoint is, to understand properly SharePoint, you have to do both IT Pro and developer. So this is why I also had some developer background way back then in PHP. And...

This is one installment in a series by Voitanos asking experienced SharePoint developers to share their thoughts on the new development model for SharePoint - the SharePoint Framework. In this series, we ask each person a series of questions and let them share their thoughts.

Paolo Pialorsi

MVP, Office Servers and Services, MCM
Twitter: @paolopia
http://www.piasys.com
Senior Consultant – PiaSys.com

I'm Paolo Pialorsi, I live in Italy. I'm a senior consultant. I work in a company of my own called PiaSys.com and I'm mainly focused on SharePoint and Office 365, all day long.

What’s your background as a SharePoint developer?

Well, I started using SharePoint very early, it was 2001, and I didn't like it, to be fair. Then when SharePoint 2007 came out, MOSS 2007 came out I fell in love because I really liked the idea of a .NET Framework and the capability to do real extensibility, even if on the server side. And since there I'm still a full SharePoint lover and developer.

How...

This is one installment in a series by Voitanos asking experienced SharePoint developers to share their thoughts on the new development model for SharePoint - the SharePoint Framework. In this series, we ask each person a series of questions and let them share their thoughts.

Elio Struyf

MVP, Office Servers and Services
Twitter: @eliostruyf
http://eliostruyf.com
Lead trainer and architect, U2U

Hi, I am Elio Struyf. I'm from Belgium. I am working as a trainer for U2U and I'm also an Office Server and Services MVP.

What’s your background as a SharePoint developer?

I started back in 2008 at U2U where I did the first training for SharePoint development, so it's a really funny story that I'm now working for the company where it all started for me. Then I started as a SharePoint administrator. For one year I did that and after one year I said no, screw administration, I want to do development, that was my real passion. After that, yeah. That's where it all started. Over the last...

This is one installment in a series by Voitanos asking experienced SharePoint developers to share their thoughts on the new development model for SharePoint - the SharePoint Framework. In this series, we ask each person a series of questions and let them share their thoughts.

Eric Overfield

Microsoft Regional Director & MVP, Office Servers and Services
Twitter: @ericoverfield
http://www.ericoverfield.com
President, PixelMill

My name is Eric Overfield, President/Founder of PixelMill as well as Office Servers and Services MVP.

What’s your background as a SharePoint developer?

Began developing SharePoint in about 2007-2008, really focusing on SharePoint 2011. Mainly I've been on the front end side of SharePoint, so really working with master pages, page layouts, et cetera, a little bit of some web part stuff out later on, and now just fully into SharePoint.

How much time have you spent with the SharePoint Framework?

Starting work in the SharePoint Framework I first saw some...

This is one installment in a series by Voitanos asking experienced SharePoint developers to share their thoughts on the new development model for SharePoint - the SharePoint Framework. In this series, we ask each person a series of questions and let them share their thoughts.

Marc Anderson

MVP, Office Servers and Services
Twitter: @sympmarc
http://sympmarc.com/
President, Sympraxis Consulting

I'm Marc Anderson. I'm a SharePoint consultant and I do other stuff but pretty much everything I do is SharePoint so, I say it that way. I have my own little company outside Boston with Julie Turner called Sympraxis Consulting.

What’s your background as a SharePoint developer?

Well, it's a little varied, right? I never did the service side stuff and that was actually sort of an election on my part. I saw some interesting things that I could do in other ways, plus I had some clients where deploying stuff to the server was just never gonna happen. So, we came up with other ways to do...

This is one installment in a series by Voitanos asking experienced SharePoint developers to share their thoughts on the new development model for SharePoint - the SharePoint Framework. In this series, we ask each person a series of questions and let them share their thoughts.

Corey Roth

MVP, Office Servers and Services
Twitter: @coreyroth
http://www.dotnetmafia.com
Independent Office 365 Consultant

Hi. My name is Corey Roth and I am an independent consultant specializing in Office 365 and mobile.

What’s your background as a SharePoint developer?

As a SharePoint developer, I got my background started in around 2007, when I got thrown into a project in my first consulting gig. They said "Hey, you do SharePoint, at least pretend you do. You're going out to the client next week." I said "Great." My first project was centered around SharePoint Search, so I started contributing in that area and started speaking about it and then for that as I later transitioned into the Office 365...

This is one installment in a series by Voitanos asking experienced SharePoint developers to share their thoughts on the new development model for SharePoint - the SharePoint Framework. In this series, we ask each person a series of questions and let them share their thoughts.

Wictor Wilen

MVP, Office Servers and Services
Twitter: @wictor
http://www.wictorwilen.se/
Director, Digital Employee Experience, Avanade

My name is Wictor Wilén. I work for Avanade out of Sweden as SharePoint MVP. I've been working with SharePoint for quite some time, both on the developer side and the infrastructure side.

What’s your background as a SharePoint developer?

I started way back when we had VBScript to customize SharePoint, but went into the DotNet world later, started and focused very much on Web Parts, and wrote a book on Web Parts once upon a time, before I moved over to the infrastructure for a little while. I've continued with the development, building knowledge systems, et...

This is one installment in a series by Voitanos asking experienced SharePoint developers to share their thoughts on the new development model for SharePoint - the SharePoint Framework. In this series, we ask each person a series of questions and let them share their thoughts.

Eric Shupps

MVP, Office Servers and Services
Twitter: @eshupps
http://www.ericshupps.com
President, BinaryWave

I'm Eric Shupps, SharePoint Server MVP, President of Binary Wave. 

What’s your background as a SharePoint developer?

I've been doing SharePoint development since the dark days of the Tahoe Project before it was called SharePoint. So I've been around awhile through the early 2000 revs into 2007, and all the way now into 2016 and the Office 365.

How much time have you spent with the SharePoint Framework?

Well, I started working with it in the early beta bits last year and worked with it through GA, and working with some of the various pre-release things that come out. So I've had some fairly...

This is one installment in a series by Voitanos asking experienced SharePoint developers to share their thoughts on the new development model for SharePoint - the SharePoint Framework. In this series, we ask each person a series of questions and let them share their thoughts.

Julie Turner

MVP, Office Servers and Services
Twitter: @jfj1997
http://julieturner.net
Principal Architect, Sympraxis Consulting

Hi, my name is Julie Turner. I am a Principle Architect with Sympraxis Consulting. Part of that, I work for Blue Metal Architects as an architect.

What’s your background as a SharePoint developer?

I came to SharePoint in 2007, when I was is internal IT for a small medical device company. Then, I decided that I'd like to get into consulting, so I shifted to consulting, stayed in the SharePoint world, and been moving in that direction as the versions come out, all the way through to Office 365 and Azure.

How much time have you spent with the SharePoint Framework?

I went to the...

This is one installment in a series by Voitanos asking experienced SharePoint developers to share their thoughts on the new development model for SharePoint - the SharePoint Framework. In this series, we ask each person a series of questions and let them share their thoughts.

Bob German

MVP, Office Development, Office Servers and Services
Twitter: @Bob1German
http://bob1german.com
Principal Architect, BlueMetal

What’s your background as a SharePoint developer?

So my name is Bob German, and I've been a SharePoint fan since it was called SiteServer.

I did start with SiteServer. I kind of skipped SharePoint 2001, but it's kind of one of the cool things about this is it's the last time they've really changed the user experience, or the way you develop for the UX was when dot net came out in 2002. So I've been there all the way through all the different phases and fits and starts of different ways of doing it.

How much time have you spent with the SharePoint Framework?

I've spent...