SharePoint online app build time

Question

I have created a SharePoint App(SharePoint Add-in) with 70 columns 6 content types and 8 lists and I am deploying the Sharepoint app to SharePoint online. It takes around 16-18 mins to retract, uninstall and install and upload the application.

Steps done so far

• Click right solution retract solution, followed by "clean solution",followed by "build and deploy the solution".
• Incremented the app version in the app manifest.xml

Is there any step I am missing so that the app can be built and deployed in lesser time.

Can anyone suggest best practices to "build and deploy" a SharePoint app(SharePoint Add-in) to Sharepoint Online?

Answer 1

SharePoint is notoriously slow with API calls, 300 milliseconds is not uncommon

A very rough calculation

( 70 * 6 * 8 * .300 ) / 60

equals to your 16 - 18 minutes

Do Batch updates

• https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/34024.bulk-update-in-sharepoint-list-using-jsom.aspx

• https://github.com/SharePoint/PnP-JS-Core/wiki/Batching

• https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/patrickrodgers/2016/06/28/pnp-jscore-1-0-2/