How to create an app catalog site in SharePoint online

In this tutorial, we will discuss how to create an app catalog site in SharePoint Online Office 365.

What is an app catalog site in SharePoint?

The app catalog is a type of site collection where we will keep or store our custom apps for our organization. And we will use those apps when they needed.

We can upload the SharePoint hosted apps or provider-hosted apps into the app catalog site.

Apart from that, we can also upload the SPFx package file to the app catalog site in SharePoint Online.

SharePoint Administrator can able to create this site in SharePoint Online.

Create an app catalog site SharePoint Online

Step 1: Go to your SharePoint Online admin center and open the Home page. Next click on More features on the left side menu.

Step 2: Next click on App Catalog to create a new catalog site in SharePoint Online.

Step 3: Next it will ask to create a new catalog site or you will use your existing catalog site.

If you have not created any app catalog site before, then it will display the create app catalog site collection screen, else it will display the URL.

Step 4: Here I choose to create a new app catalog site. So once I click on Ok, a new page will open and it will ask to give the details to create a new site as per the below screenshot.

Step 5: Now the new App Catalog site has been created successfully. This is now ready to use.

Step 6: I just uploaded my new SPFX webpart (.sspkg) in this library and activate it so we can use it in our other site collection in SharePoint Online.

In this SharePoint tutorial, we will discuss what is an app catalog site in SharePoint Online. Also, we discussed how to create an app catalog site in SharePoint Online Office 365.

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