HackaLearn 2021 - Azure for beginners

Transform your Angular App to a Full-Featured Web App

You have wonderful ideas, and you use Angular to create beautiful applications with meaningful content and user engagement. But you've always wondered how hard it would be to push your project to production. With my guidance you'll be able to deploy and add essential features to your web application in five days.

I don't want to fool you, no one becomes a full-stack expert in only five days. The purpose of HackaLearn is to get you started in the right direction, with personal support and a clear route for the next steps. I believe in learning by doing, especially when it comes to technical skills. And, like I'm excited about Angular, I'm also excited about the new Serverless offerings on Azure and other Cloud providers which simplify the process for us developers.

Make Great Use of your Summer Vacation

I truly hope that you have time to relax during the summer vacation. If you'll have a few hours every now and then to learn something new, expand your portfolio, and take your ideas to the next level - don't miss up on this opportunity.

By the way, if you're an ngGirl you can join an earlier HackaLearn week, on July 25-29. Check out the details at https://hackalearn.ng-girls.org

What You'll Learn

Today's technology allows you to deploy your application with all the necessary configuration with just a few steps. We'll use Azure Static Web Apps, Functions, and Cosmos DB to transform your wonderful Angular front-end to a full-featured application that you can serve to your audience right away.

Agenda

During the five days we'll meet every day for a 2-hour workshop (11:00-13:00 CEST), led by yours truly (Shmuela Jacobs), where we'll connect a pre-made Angular application to Azure, step by step. First we'll deploy it on Static Web Apps, then add an API, connect to Cosmos DB, use authentication and authorization, and configure routing. The workshops will be recorded.

After the workshop we'll have Q&A (13:30-14:30 CEST) where Shmuela will take a look at your projects and help you both with Angular and Azure. Several mentors will be available throughout the week for additional assistance. Additional relevant content will be provided, such as video tutorials and Learn Modules.
About a week later we'll meet again to present our applications.

The challenge consists of three parts, for which you'll be eligible for an Azure Hero Badge:

1. Deploying your own application to Static Web Apps,
2. Completing the Learn Modules provided in the Cloud Skills Challenge,
3. Sharing a post where you tell about your experience.

Participation

Participation is free of charge and open for everyone. In addition, Azure is free for (generous) limited use.

The workshops will be held in English. Depending on the mentors' capabilities, we may support you in other languages during consultancy time.

About Your Instructor

Shmuela Jacobs is a proud ngMom of two little ngBoys. Besides that, she's a front-end developer and consultant, the founder of ngGirls, working as a Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft. She's a Google Developer Expert in Angular and Web Technologies. Her passion for teaching, which had been expressed in the past as a guide in science museums and TA in university, has been integrated in her journey of becoming a developer.