A few years back Microsoft launched their new SharePoint modern experience together with the SharePoint classic experience. But the momentum around the modern experience grew faster with the addition of hub and communication sites. The modern experience is everything that the old SharePoint wasn’t - easy to use, beautiful, mobile friendly and fully integrated with the rest of Office 365. So if you need to modernize your classic SharePoint environment or just get started with office 365, then it is time to embrace the Modern SharePoint experience.
What is the Modern Experience?
The modern pages represent a superior user and also a content editor experience and it fills some of the gaps that are around publishing that Microsoft have dealt with years ago. The modern experience is based on SharePoint development framework, which presented some fundamental changes in the classic platform. It basically means that developing SharePoint is more about configuring the front end experience than the processes that run at the back end.
Why You would Love to Use SharePoint’s Modern Experience?
The Pages are Great to Look for the Users:
The modern pages are great with clear page layouts, great images and a contemporary feel. They work well on mobile devices and also ensure a better reaction to content from the users. It also has the potential to expand the UI with customization by using the SharePoint framework.
Faster Everywhere:
In classic SharePoint, most pages are created on the server and the entire layout needs to be sent over the network for each page. This of course created a bottleneck in the servers and also lead to large network payloads. In modern experience, most of the pages are created in the web browsers and a lot of SharePoint content is stored outside the SharePoint servers, close to the user by using the CDN. This makes content retrieval easy and fast.
List and Library Improvements:
There have been many improvements in the list which includes easier filtering, attention views, conditional formatting, which offers a sensible way to show the items that are missing the required information. Modern list addresses the 5000 item view limit and this is done by automatically creating the indexes that are needed based on the user’s interaction. The forms and workflow applied to the libraries and lists is being modernized.
Modern Page Wrap Themselves Around Office 365:
Another advantage of SharePoint modern experience is that it integrates easily with the rest of the office 365. By allowing the content editors to add template web parts that enable the people to add document libraries, latest updated from Microsoft teams site or yammer feeds, it has become the best place to build an integrated experience with the rest of the Office 365 suite.