Build Node.js Apps: Deploy & Monitor on Azure App Service

Have you been worrying that your existing web applications aren't good enough to take advantage of the elasticity of the cloud? Or that refactoring them is going to be very difficult? Azure App Service comes to your rescue! Azure App Service is one of the easiest ways to deploy apps to the Cloud. It provides powerful capabilities such as built-in development operations, continuous integration with Visual Studio Online and GitHub, staging and production support, and automatic patching for Azure developers to quickly create web applications. It also enables integration with on-premises or other cloud systems.

This comprehensive 2-in-1 course is concise and appropriate to use Azure building blocks to deploy your Node .js microservice-based apps to the cloud. Initially, you’ll build a sample Node .js application for Azure Cloud. You’ll also understand Azure services such as Azure Web Apps, Azure Container Services, and Cosmos DB and highlight specifics used by Node .js applications. Moving further, you’ll explore the flexibility of Azure App Service to configure and scale up your Node .js Web App. You’ll also perform necessary tests on your refactored Node .js app and deploy it to Azure. Finally, you'll set up and secure a cloud MySQL database for your web app to manage and schedule your server tasks in the background with Azure!

By the end of the course, you’ll build and launch a Node .js application using Web Apps, CosmosDB, and Container Services. Refactor Node .js Web apps and deploy, scale, and monitor them on Azure App Service.

Contents and Overview

This training program includes 2 complete courses, carefully chosen to give you the most comprehensive training possible.

The first course, Modernize Node .js Web Apps with Azure App Service, covers refactoring Node .js Web apps and deploy, scale, and monitor them on Azure App Service. You will benefit from effortless CI/CD configurations and automatic deployments to staging and production environments and will have more streamlined testing and Quality Assurance processes. Also, you will easily scale your app to meet business needs (while monitoring it for errors and usage statistics with ease) through Azure's services. By the end of this course, you will be confident enough to modernize an existing Node .js web app and deploy it to Azure via App Service.

The second course, Microservice Development on Azure: Node .js, covers how to build and deploy apps with Node .js and Microsoft Azure. This course shows you step-by-step how to use Azure Building Blocks to deploy your Node.js microservice-based apps to the cloud. You will start with what cloud-native applications are and their benefits. You will also learn about the crucial reasons for developing a Node .js app and deploying it on Azure. Then you will understand different Azure services, highlight Azure building blocks used by Node .js apps, and deploy your Node .js applications on the Azure Cloud platform. Finally, you will monitor and troubleshoot your Node .js applications with Azure App Insights.

By the end of the course, you will have mastered building an application in Node .js that's based on microservices, deploying it on the Azure Cloud platform, and monitoring and troubleshooting it with Azure App Insights..

By the end of the course, you’ll build an application in Node .js based on microservices, deploy on the Azure Cloud platform: Monitor & troubleshoot with Azure App Insights.

About the Authors

• Dimitris Loukas is a software engineer currently part of a growing start-up building a revolutionary referral marketing platform with Node .js, Angular, MySQL, Redis, and Docker. He also develops trading software applications using C#, Aurelia, and TypeScript. He is an author at Packt and has developed many video tutorials in C#, .NET Core, and TypeScript. He has worked for two startups in the past, is active in the open-source community, and loves taking up small side-projects. He has developed microservices using C# and Node .js and has also mastered Angular, Aurelia, and Vue .JS. He is an early adopter of .NET Core and is fascinated by modern JavaScript and where the web is going.

• Peter De Tender is the CEO and Lead Technical Trainer at PDTIT and 007FFF Learning, a Microsoft Cloud Platform Architect, an extremely passionate trainer and speaker, Azure MVP (2013-2018), Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), and a technical writer. After starting his career in 1996, Peter has never looked back from Microsoft infrastructure technologies. At present, he’s an expert on Azure and Azure Stack, coaching global Microsoft Partners, larger Microsoft customers, and Microsoft FTE teams all over the World so they can achieve more with Azure. While this got him a position as FTE for Microsoft Corp in the global Microsoft AzureCAT GSI (Azure Engineering) team early in 2016, his passion for speaking and presenting made him decide to return to his own company after about a year, coming back with an even stronger focus on providing readiness workshops and architect consulting on the Azure platform. He recently published Learning Operations Management Suite with Apress , co-authored the Microsoft Official Curriculum for the 70-535 Architecting Azure Solutions, and is currently writing Azure Governance and Security for Apress, as well as authoring a series of advanced Azure training videos for Packt Publishing. Get in contact with Peter through social media, preferably Twitter @pdtit or @007FFFLearning.