Anyone have any experience with ““Napa” Office 365 Development Tools” yet? Interested in seeing the options and capabilities of such a thing.
http://ning.it/19Ligny (Link to content)
“The “Napa” Office 365 Development Tools make it easy to start building apps for Office and SharePoint without leaving your browser or installing software. Just add the “Napa” Office 365 Development Tools app to your SharePoint Online Developer Site, launch it, and you will be ready to create your first app for Office or SharePoint.”
I’ve only had a little bit of experience with Napa so far. It is a neat way to start & rapid prototype SharePoint 2013 apps. However, without too much experience I’m left with a few open questions about its target audience and usefulness:
1. Are there users that do not have access to Visual Studio, that will start to use Napa to “get their feet wet” with SharePoint development? I have a hard time believing that these users exist.
2. What value does Napa provide for developers who will ultimately pop open the solution in Visual Studio to finish it? Does it provide a faster way to rapid prototype simple solutions? What sort of things are easier/faster to accomplish in the browser? Does it serve as a quick dev environment to test simple things out?
