Part II: Azure App Service and DevOps

Developers love coffee and of course they love to explore new technologies (well, at least I do). I combined both and proudly present to you: CoffeeFriends. CoffeeFriends is a website to track your coffee consumption together with your peers. Like a social network … with coffee.

I mainly started this project, to brush up my Angular and Azure skills. The tech stack will be

• Angular (with Material) for the front-end
• .NET Core web services for the back-end
• Azure AD B2C will serve for the user authentication
• Azure Web App for serving both front- and back-end and
• Azure DevOps Pipelines for CI/CD

Since I want to spin up a kind of complete CI/CD process, you will eventually always find the current version at https://coffeefriends.azurewebsites.net. Please bear with me, since I just started the project, it’s not that much, yet. Just come back later. I’d like to stress that I’m not providing a service (¹). This is just a pet project of mine and there won’t be any guarantees or liabilities. I might shut down the website at any time, wipe all the data or do whatever I’d like to with it (²). If it is down and you are interested in seeing the page in action, drop me a message (see contact options below).

During the development of the website I will try and write blog posts about certain aspects of the project, why I did what I did and how issues I encountered on my way have been solved. Since most of the tech stack is quite new to me, I will always be happy about comments, via pull-requests, Twitter, pigeon post, whatsoever.

The next posts will be about Hosting and Azure DevOps Pipelines and using Azure AD B2C for authentication. Stay tuned.

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