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by fzumstein 1025 days ago
It's me, yes, are you Michael then ;)? Yeah, I love the Office.js platform, I believe it's the most versatile extension platform there is, it just came out during an unfortunate time (when people believed that you can't use JS without React anymore ;) Anyhow, the magic of Office.js is that you can use it like a JS framework with total freedom what you use on the backend (it's just a fetch call away), so whether that is .NET or Node or Python/R/Julia doesn't matter at all, it's just that the official docs don't really bother to explain that or show an example other than Node & C#. What's a game changer (and only available on Office.js) is the integrated authentication via SSO/Azure AD, which is the first thing any IT department in a corporation is interested in.
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I’m not Michael - presuming you are referring to Michael the PM. I was a dev. I’ll add you on LinkedIn.

Great to here you praise auth. I almost forgot getting auth ‘right’ inside Excel was a real time burglar.