25 October 2022

Some recent Azure Fridays

Introducing the Azure Developer CLI (azd)

• Create things using templates.
• Seems to be aimed at people who don’t know what they’re doing and don’t want to think too much about it.
• But also good for giving examples of best practices.
• Templates include everything - vscode, Azure DevOps pipelines, GitHub Actions, dashboard, Playwright, etc.

New API back-end options in Azure Static Web Apps

• Static web apps always had Functions backends, but now they’ve added more
• secure the backend, handle CORS, routing, backend can extract headers from request
• can link static web app to API in the portal
  • then it’ll handle the context, ie route the relative paths
  • auth providers/endpoints are built-in
  • also API Management - allows to link to other APIs - can add auth, etc