Building Static Web Apps with database connections: Best Practices
With the announcement of Static Web Apps' database connections feature, when should you use database connections versus building your own backend APIs? What is Data API builder and how does it relate to Static Web Apps' database connections feature? We cover these topics and more in this blog post.Cloud-native architectures on Azure: Microsoft Ignite update
Learn about our latest innovation on containers and serverless that empowers every developer to take advantage of flexible choices to create microservices applications. Join us at Microsoft Ignite to dive deeper with demos on cloud-native technologies.Announcing Distributed Functions (Preview) for Azure Static Web Apps
Today, we're announcing distributed functions for Azure Static Web Apps managed functions. With distributed functions, the managed functions of your static web app are distributed to regions of high request loads, improving your app performance, decreasing your network latency, and enhancing your request responsiveness.Improved Next.js support (Preview) for Azure Static Web Apps
Next.js is a popular framework for building modern web applications with React, making it a common workload to deploy to Azure Static Web Apps’ optimized hosting of frontend web applications. We are excited to announce that we have improved our support for Next.js on Azure Static Web Apps, increasing the compatibility with recent Next.js features and providing support for the newest Next.js versions, enabling you to deploy and run your Next.js applications with full feature access on Azure.Access network isolated APIs and databases from Azure Static Web Apps
Azure Static Web Apps are often complemented with APIs, microservices and databases. At times though, these downstream services are isolated within a virtual network, preventing access from Static Web Apps’ managed Azure functions. This article explains how we can configure our Static Web Apps to support such access by leveraging Static Web Apps’ linked backends feature.
