SharePoint Online: Site Asset Provisioning Programatically


Love it or hate it, for any given requirement, Microsoft always comes up with multiple solutions i.e. there are more than one ways of achieving a goal. 

So in case of assets provisioning such creating site columns, Content types and list etc. on a SharePoint Online programatically, developers got following ways: 


Of course there are other ways as well such a CSOM, REST and spmeta2 but above are pretty much standard.  

I would go for option one, if I have an Add-in/Extension depending on some lists and content types. 

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