“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
Of template files, cascading styles,
And bundles made of strings,
And why SharePoint is boiling hot,
And whether pigs have wings.”

Like many SharePoint developers of late, I’ve been exploring the SharePoint Framework (SPFx), doing experiments, and porting code over to the new web part model. Something that perplexed me at first is how to handle HTML templates.

On the client side, I mostly work in AngularJS 1.x (Angular 2 isn’t ready for web parts yet since it only allows one instance of an app to run on a page at a time). And we Angular developers just love our templates! So how to manage them in the SPFx development environment? This article will show you how, and it will also clarify the mystery of CSS modules, which end up being related to HTML templates.

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