Why the PnP name?

[BurtHarris]

Why do these packages use the name PnP? On first reading, I assumed it stood for Plug and Play, but that's pretty clearly not accurate. I gather it relates to the Microsoft Graph, APIs which is what I want.

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[AndersRask]

I think the correct term was Plug and Pray ;-)

PnP in this context stands for Patterns & Practices, and have it's roots in the Patterns and Practices team from Microsoft back in the days.
This effort however, while condoned my Microsoft, is a community driven effort, but still strives to apply good patterns and practices on top of the sometimes wonky API's :-)