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Azure Static Web Apps is the ideal service for hosting modern frontend web apps and static sites on Azure. At times though, these frontend websites rely on downstream services that are isolated within a virtual network. This article explains how we can configure our Static Web Apps to support such access by leveraging Static Web Apps’ linked backends feature.

I'm launching Penmark, an embeddable CMS for Markdown-based, GitHub-backed static sites. Penmark is the fruit of months of work coming up with a better editing experience for my own blog, and I decided to package it into a product that anyone can easily use with their own blogs and content sites!

React and NextJS provide a quick user experience with client-side navigation. However, this can break injected scripts that don't rerun on page navigation. To resolve these, we can consider a few alternatives that help work around the client-side navigation limitation.

In the previous blog post, I discussed hosting a React application on Static Web Apps with a subpath. In this post, we explore hosting a Blazor app with a subpath as well!

When hosting a React application, you may be interested in hosting it with a subpath, such that you app is hosted at /. In this article, we cover how to host a React application on Azure Static Web Apps with a subpath.

Recently, I read about the utility of SQLite for web servers and was intrigued by the possibility of using SQLite and an Azure Function to host an effectively free web application. Since an Azure Functions app comes along with an Azure Files storage account by default, the Azure Function should be able to store and read an SQLite file.

I often come back to guides to create new React and Express applications, so in this blog post I document how to create a simple React frontend and Express backend application.

Bindings are a powerful Azure Functions feature which provide native integrations to other resources or services, such as databases or storage accounts. While bindings are usually static, it is possible to have dynamic binding in C#. This is how.

In this blog post, we are going to build a Python web application from scratch, using the Flask framework and using Azure Blob Storage to store our pictures.