skirda-backend/api

Install dependencies

https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-core-tools

and the VS Code extension called Azure Functions

Run

Run either with Run/Start Debugging

or npm start or func host start from the command line

Interesting parts

A Function app normally runs on URL http://localhost:7071/api/<function-endpoint>

• host.json, this sets the routePrefix to empty string which means that the base URL is now http://localhost:7071/

Every function is built up of a directory looking like so:

--| <function-endpoint>
----| function.json
----| index.js

• function.json, this the configuration that set's up the function
  • authLevel, this decided whether the user needs an API key or not, possible values anonymous, function, admin
  • type, how the function is triggered, can be many things like a queue message a DB row etc, in this case it's a httpTrigger
  • direction, this says whether this is incoming data or outgoing. We can for example have an incoming HTTP message but an outgoing DB row (we write to a DB). Read more about this on bindings
  • name, name of the request/response object depending on
  • methods, this is an array of supported methods
  • route, this sets up what routing pattern we respond on