Migrating Your API to Serverless using Azure Functions

Burke Holland leads you through learning how to migrate an existing NodeJS/Express based API to a Serverless one using Azure Functions and Azure Functions Proxies.

Here's what we go over in the video...

00:19 - Walkthough of existing project (available on Github)
01:27 - Create new Serverless project
02:26 - Create a new HTTP Function
02:47 - Add a function to read from the database
04:16 - Testing locally
04:47 - Create and test the rest of the CRUD functions - Create, Update and Delete
07:35 - Create a new Functions App in Azure
08:35 - Deploying code to the Function App in Azure
09:20 - Add environment variables
09:54 - Testing deployed Function App with Postman
10:28 - Using proxies to create RESTful URL's
14:30 - Pointing the React project at the new endpoint
15:23 - Enabling CORS

[truth_beauty]

This is what I was looking for! Subscribed :)

[MattPenner]

Absolutely awesome! Totally ties together what I've been looking for on how to use Azure Functions for my Cosmos DB backend API.

[JanithWidarshana]

It helped me to get clear idea about converting rest api to Azure function. Very helpful video :) Can you please show us how to do unit testing for this?

[websimo]

Great job. I look for for long times 'then I found it, thanks

[harisubra]

Nice one. Would have been good to talk about the impact of hosting apis on a serverless platform. For ex cold start and the impact of it. Database connection pooling issues related to frequent cold starts.

[teolcd]

The part of reconfiguring the proxies is kind of tedious, imagine we have more than 10 endpoints ... But we can stick with the default routes tbh