Azure Static Web Apps is a service that automatically builds and deploys full stack web apps from a GitHub repository. Azure Static Web Apps consist of a static web frontend, and an Azure Functions based backend. When you create a Static Web Apps resource, Azure sets up a GitHub Actions workflow in the app’s source code repository that monitors a branch of your choice. Every time you push commits to the watched branch, the GitHub Action automatically builds and deploys your app and its API.

As of today, Azure Static Web Apps now has first-class support for Blazor WebAssembly and .NET Functions in preview, available in all supported regions. This was one of the top user requests since Static Web Apps was announced at Build. You can develop and deploy a frontend and a serverless API written entirely in .NET.

Let’s give it a try!

Getting Started

To help you get started, we’ve created a GitHub repository template, which you can use as a starting point for your own projects.

In GitHub, click on the Use this template button to create a new GitHub repository using the template, providing it a name of your choosing (we’ll use my-blazor-app here) and click Create repository from template.

There are three folders in the template:

• Client: The Blazor WebAssembly sample application
• API: A C## Azure Functions API, which the Blazor application will call
• Shared: A C## class library with a shared data model between the Blazor and Functions application

To run the app locally, start both the API and Client projects. The “Fetch data” page in the Blazor app requests weather forecast data form the backend Function API and display it on the page.

To run the app from the command-line, you’ll need to install the Azure Functions Core Tools for your platform of choice.

Deploying to Static Web Apps

To deploy this app as an Azure Static Web App, log into your Azure account (sign up for a free one here) and search for Static Web Apps.

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