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In this post I would like to share some findings from setting a deployment of SPFx. In my work:

• I need to deploy SPFx solutions using Azure Pipelines
• I need to use the least privileges/permissions
• I cannot use Legacy Authentication

First of all, big thanks to @waldekm and the whole community of @office365cli and @m365pnp for the quick help, and that outside working hours.

Let’s take a look at the setup piece by piece