Building a Serverless REST API With Azure Functions From Scratch

Building a serverless REST API with Azure Functions is a good exercise to get familar with all the ins and outs of Azure Functions. In this video we go from depth to depth by implementing complete CRUD operations for a REST API running 100% on Azure Functions. This setup allows us to go deeper into topics like function workers, dependency injection in Azure functions, using EF Core in Azure function, securing secrets via Azure Key Vault and much more. Make sure to not miss it!

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Content:
1. Intro: 00:00
2. Create Azure Function App: 01:30
3. In process vs islolated Azure Functions: 02:16
4. Finalizing Azure Function App creation: 03:12
5. Azure Functions and Azure Key Vault: 04:09
6. Create Azure Functions Project: 05:06
7. Azure Functions settings: 05:56
8. Installing NuGet packages: 07:50
9. Create Product and DbContext: 09:12
10. Dependency injection in Azure Functions: 10:55
11. Creating API endpoints in Azure Functions: 14:03
12. Azure Functions Authorization Level: 15:16
13. Azure Functions HttpTrigger: 17:31
14. Working with Http requests in Azure Functions: 18:55
15. Implementing remaining endpoints: 21:27
16. Debugging Azure Functions locally: 25:10
17. Deploy Azure Functions: 26:11

[jamesbest]

This video is fantastic! Pure gold! It finally answers all the (head scratching) pieces that are needed to put together a full serverless api. I also very much appreciate how your videos have no fluff, and are meat-and-potatoes and pedal-to-the-metal all the way, which is great for someone like me who has very limited time and can learn fast. Cheers!

[seeker]

Fantastic... Underrated content... To the point, clear and covers everything beautifully

[vrtualminds-wisi]

The best tutorial regarding Az Functions.

[ramfattah]

Loving these C# and Azure videos. Looking forward to learning more from you.

[markharby]

This is one of the best tutorials I have found on API Azure Functions, great work.

[danielegiovanetti]

I can't find other words to say thank you. You special!

[Tech-wntp]

thank you guru! subscribed you and learned something from you today. you are the best!

[Ramz]

You are divine! This is so helpful. Thank you.

[visheshgrade]

Randomly saw this today, to check my understanding, covered everything in a short video. I generally don't comment, but great work 😀. Now will see more videos here 😅

[FiggyCricket]

I know that you mentioned doing migrations with EF Core could be difficult. But I wanted to let folks know that scaffolding with EF Core works very easily with Azure Functions. I feel like database first is more typical in production environments so I wanted to point that out.

[TaNTaTANify]

Great video! thanks! it was very understandable and with a nice pace.

[samitkrghosh]

This tutorial is really helpfull for those who started carrier as azure developer like me . Thanks a ton....

[hydminb]

Really good video. A good follow-up might be explaining the objects you created beforehand, especially the "sql" secret since the app won't run without that part working. I'm not asking for an in-depth code-first migrations video, but a database first explanation so new people can get this app up and running. Excellent work!

[kushagrame]

Thank you sir very beautifully explained....

[sahoopradipta]

Very nice and easy explanation. Thanks..

[sushilb]

Great video! I have a question - how to use azure key vault when we specify something in the input binding like service bus queue trigger where queue name and connection string is supposed to be taken from azure key vault. Any help on this would be really appreciated.

[yusunryu]

Thank you. I really enjoyed your vide.
I think sql setup is missing in this video. How do you setup the azure sql for Functions?

[philipquarles]

Great video! Showing how to do local testing is exactly what I was looking for! I would like to use Dapper instead of Entity Framework. Is that possible?

[arvindchourasiya]

Great video, so much to learn here. I just have one doubt, in connection string you did specify vault key only, not db credentials then how it is connected to SQL Server, is the data comes from Azure or SQL ?

[Stevedot]

20:11 would it be possible to create two separate method for the get and the post by only changing the attribute and use "get" for the first one and "post" for the second one? This way, each method do only one thing.