Is there a way to automatically create a new subsite when an item is created inside a list using APPs

Question

I am working on the following scenario inside my sharepoint 2013 enterprise server on-premise.

1. I have a customer list inside a sub-site http://servername/sites/customer.
2. now i want to automatically create a new sub-site under the above subsite, when an item inside the customer list is created. and the sub-site will have the same name as the item.

now i found some articles which describe how to do so inside an event receiver and publish it as farm solution.
Altogether this will work for me as i am using on-premise sharepoint,But can anyone adivce if i can implement my above scenario (of creating a sub-site) using APPs instead of Farm solutions?

Thanks

Answer 1

This you can achieve through by creating a Remote Event Receiver instead of a farm solution in SharePoint 2013 , to create a Remote Event Receiver you should develop a Provider Hosted App.

In Remote Event Reciever you can handle all list item events like normal event recievers and you can write the logic over there as per your requirements.

Please refer the below article for more info on RERs :

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj220043.aspx

Answer 2

If you do not want to use Farm solution then either you can use Remote Event Receiver or you can create Sandbox Solution with list & event receiver.