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Virtual Training Day - Azure for Developers

Sample feedback form app using Azure App Service and Azure Cosmos DB.

Prerequisites

• Have an Azure account with an active subscription. Create an account for free.
• Install Node.js and npm. Run the command node --version to verify that Node.js is installed.
• Install Visual Studio Code.
• The Azure App Service extension for Visual Studio Code.
• Have a GitHub account
• Install GitHub Desktop

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Initial setup

Install Azure App Service Extentsion for Visual Studio Code

In Visual Studio Code, in the Activity Bar, select the Azure logo.

1. In the App Service explorer, select Sign in to Azure… and follow the instructions.

   In Visual Studio Code, you should see your Azure email address in the Status Bar and your subscription in the AZURE APP SERVICE explorer.

Configure Azure Cosmos DB instance

1. Sign in to the Azure portal.

2. From the Azure portal menu or the Home page, select Create a resource.

3. On the New page, search for and select Azure Cosmos DB.

4. On the Select API option page, select the Create option within the MongoDB section. Azure Cosmos DB has five APIs: SQL, MongoDB, Gremlin, Table, and Cassandra.

5. On the Create Azure Cosmos DB Account page, enter the following information:

   Setting	Value	Description
   Subscription	Subscription name	Select the Azure subscription that you wish to use for this Azure Cosmos DB account.
   Resource Group	Resource group name	Select a resource group, or select Create new, then enter a unique name for the new resource group.
   Account Name	A unique name	Enter a name to identify your Azure Cosmos DB account. The name will be used as part of a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) with a suffix of documents.azure.com, so the name must be globally unique. The name can only contain lowercase letters, numbers, and the hyphen (-) character. The name must also be between 3-44 characters in length.
   Location	The region closest to your users	Select a geographic location to host your Azure Cosmos DB account. Use the location that is closest to your users to give them the fastest access to the data.
   Capacity mode	Provisioned throughput or Serverless	Select Provisioned throughput.
   Apply Azure Cosmos DB free tier discount	Apply or Do not apply	Select Apply With Azure Cosmos DB free tier, you’ll get the first 1000 RU/s and 25 GB of storage for free in an account. Learn more about free tier.
   Version	MongoDB version	Use the default version.

6. Select Review + create.

7. Review the settings you provide, and then select Create. It takes a few minutes to create the account. Wait for the portal page to display Your deployment is complete before moving on.

8. Select Go to resource to go to the Azure Cosmos DB account page.

9. From the Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL account page, select the Connection String navigation menu option.

10. Record the values for the PRIMARY CONNECTION STRING field. You’ll use this value in a later step.

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Configure and deploy app

Edit configuration

1. Fork repo
2. Open forked repo with GitHub Desktop
3. In GitHub Desktop, select “Open in Visual Studio Code”

4. In Visual Studio Code, open the .env file. Replace the MongoDB Connection String

   PORT=3001
   MONGODB_URL="<connection string saved from above. Starts with 'mongodb://'>"
   

5. Save file

Run app locally to validate Azure Cosmos DB configuration

1. In the menu bar, expand Terminal > Select New Terminal

2. Install the node modules

    npm install
   

3. Start the app

   node app.js
   

4. In a browser, navigate to http://localhost:3001. You should see something like this:

Deploy app to Azure

1. In Visual Studio Code, in the Activity Bar, select the Azure logo.
2. Right-click on App Services and select Create new Web App. (A Linux container is used by default.)
3. Type a globally unique name for your web app and press Enter. The name must be unique across all of Azure and use only alphanumeric characters (‘A-Z’, ‘a-z’, and ‘0-9’) and hyphens (‘-‘).
4. In Select a runtime stack, select the Node.js version you want. An LTS version is recommended.
5. In Select a pricing tier, select Free (F1) and wait for the resources to be provisioned in Azure.

6. In the popup Always deploy the workspace “AZUREFORDEVELOPERS” to <app-name>”, select Yes. This way, as long as you’re in the same workspace, Visual Studio Code deploys to the same App Service app each time.

   While Visual Studio Code provisions the Azure resources and deploys the code, it shows progress notifications.

7. Once deployment completes, select Browse Website in the notification popup. The browser should display the feedback form page.

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Redeploy updates

You can deploy changes to this app by making edits in Visual Studio Code, saving your files, and then redeploy to your Azure app. For example:

1. Open public/index.html and change the Title color

    <!-- Title -->
      <div class="row mb-3">
        <h1 style="color:blue;">Customer Feedback Form</h1>
      </div>
   

   to

    <!-- Title -->
      <div class="row mb-3">
        <h1 style="color:orange;">Customer Feedback Form</h1>
      </div>
   

2. In the App Service explorer, select the Deploy to Web App icon again, confirm by clicking Deploy again.
3. Wait for deployment to complete, then select Browse Website in the notification popup. You should see that the title is now colored orange.

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Contributing

This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution. For details, visit https://cla.opensource.microsoft.com.

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