Over the last 3 months or so, I’ve been building a lot of experimental software on the web. Silly things, fun things. And throughout, I’ve wrangled...
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Good article, thanks ! Question though: I´m a fan of multirepos. I normally place frontend in one repo, and each micro service (API) in separate repos. Makes the CI/CD easier and the structure nicer. But this looks like one big pile of code, is it possible to separate frontend/api ?
This kind of API would more be for your "backend for frontend" - I'd suggest that you put any actual microservices in Azure Web Apps, or Azure Functions apps, and called them by Url as usual.
Thanks, and agree, seems like a good solution. Even though I cant vision what I would put in the "BFF". Sounds more like som helper/utility-stuff. Hmmm.
Think of a BFF as the "backend logic" of a traditional web application :)
Just a note that Netlify also has support for serverless functions, deployed right from any folder you specify in your repo. Deploying updates to static content together with your API all versioned together is a super powerful workflow!
Pretty sure that's where Microsoft got this idea.
That's excellent 🖤
This is a nice article, I'd be interested in checking it out. However, have you tried Firebase Web Hosting? If you really want a seamless experience packed full of functionality I would definitely recommend checking that out.
I have indeed :)
I have varied, but mostly positive opinions and experiences of GCP.
Great post. I'm really looking forward to seeing the Azure Static Web Apps evolve.
Thanks Kane - I'm excited that if they bring some default storage into the package that it's super competitive with Netlify and Firebase, along with all the other cool stuff Azure can do.
I'd really like to see some form of Cosmos DB integration, whereby you specify the Json schema (e.g. /cosmos-schema/orders.json) and then the service provision the Cosmos account & setup each container. That would be awesome.
Excellent rundown David, Thanks for posting this!
Thanks John :)
Netlify does all that and in more concise way.
Netlify is awesome, but doesn't have the breadth of supporting products the Azure ecosystem has.
Great product.
Great explanation of how to use Azure Static Web Apps and combine them with Azure Functions!! Super cool!
Thanks Jason :)
Thank you, I do didn't know about this. It looks like a direct alternative to Netlify.
Absolutely - I think the cool thing that azure static web apps have over services like netlify, is that all the rest of the Azure ecosystem is directly accessible from them, and that's pretty cool.
Which in no way undervalues the work Netlify has done, which I totally also love :)
Are you sure that it works with a C# api too? I’ve tried it once but the GitHub action failed to build the C# function, the docs also say JavaScript is required.
The C# stuff works locally, but you need to do some more work in the GHAction to cajole it to work during deployment. I'll put together something more detailed here.
I think it's definitely currently a grey area :)
Would love to see a example! I tried already to provide a package.json file that builds the function, but that wasn’t enough. Haven’t spend much time digging deeper, though.
C# is absolutely supported, not only that, but it's first-class. You're probably using a wrong Github Action workflow. The '.NET Core' workflow is what you're looking for.
I would love to see an example of the ‘.NET Core’ version working with the Azure Static Sites. The official docs say it isn’t supported yet from what i can tell.