Can you please explain the stages involved in developing an SPFx app and deploying it to Production, like starting from development, debugging, building and deploying to Production, so that users can start utilizing it?
First of all you need to set up your developmet environment using below steps.
then create your webpart using yoman generator “yo @microsoft/sharepoint”
After complete your develoment just tun gulp commands, gulp bundle --ship and gulp package-solution --ship which will create your sppkg file
gulp bundle --ship
gulp package-solution --ship
upload that file to SharePoint appcatalog, click on deploy
for more details you can find a very good article written by SharePoint Gems.
1. Environment Setup - which includes Node JS, Yeoman, Gulp, SharePoint Generator and Visual Studio Code 2. Development - using JavaScript /React 3. Deployment - deploying to app catalog in Development site 4. Testing - Validating all the functionality of SPFx webpart 5. Deploy to Production Environment