Cisar

SharePoint CSR Live Edit
What is Cisar?
Cisar is a Chrome Extension explicitly designed for SharePoint Developers. It hugely speeds up and streamlines the process of developing SharePoint Client Side Rendering (CSR) customizations. The live edit feature allows developers to see changes as they type, integrated seamlessly with the SharePoint page. Cisar also offers CSR-tailored intellisense. It supports Office 365, on-premise SharePoint 2013, list forms, views, editing mode, and customization of search results. The open-source extension is freely available, with its source code hosted on Github.

Extension stats

Users: 962 ▼ -3
Rating: 4.89 (27)
Version: 2.1.2 (Last updated: 2019-03-08)
Creation date: 2019-03-08
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Size: 1.01M

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Extension summary

This extension is for SharePoint Developers. It makes process of creating SharePoint Client Side Rendering customizations many times faster. The customizations will be applied as-you-type to the underlying SharePoint page. Cisar provides CSR-tailored intellisense and tight integration with the underlying page.

Cisar supports Office 365 as well as on-premise SharePoint 2013. List forms, list views, list views in Edit mode and search results can be customized.

Extension is open source and free. Source code is available on Github: https://github.com/andrei-markeev/cisar

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Easy to implement
  • Great tool for SharePoint developers
  • Speeds up development time
  • Awesome features
  • Innovative solution
Cons
  • Lacks a status message after saving scripts
  • Issues with intellisense
Most mentioned
  • Awesome extension
  • Thanks, Andrew
  • Great tool for SharePoint developers
Recent reviews
Very cool extension. Easy to implement! Kudos for Dev team!
by Pradip Rathod, 2018-09-05

Great tool for sharepoint developer! Much thanks, Andrei! Please, make a status message after saving the script. It's inconvinient to watch the console log after every save waiting the saving.
by Andrey Myasnikov, 2017-11-07

You can do CSR without it, but why would you?
by Joe McShea, 2017-01-19
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Cisar requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Cisar has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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