How to Create Static Web Apps in Azure for Beginners
A recent project had me looking into solutions for web forms that could be provisioned separately from a primary website. I was looking for possible ways to limit exposure from web bots and DDoS attacks above and beyond traditional means. My investigation led me to Azure Static Web Apps. As defined by Microsoft, an Azure Static Web App is a service that automatically builds and deploys full stack web applications to Azure from a code repository such as GitHub or Azure DevOps. Built from libraries and web frameworks such as Angular, React, Svelte, Vue or Blazor where server side rendering is not required, these applications include HTML, CSS, JavaScript and image assets that make up the application. I am not familiar with any of these libraries or frameworks, rather the majority of my web development was done using PHP which is not supported. Fortunately Static Web Apps can be developed using just standard JavaScript and with some creativity and leveraging API endpoints, I ...