One of the key processes for building a crazy performant web application is to use statically generated pages. A ton of systems exist for building these types of apps: like Jekyll, Gatsy, Gridsome, and more. Even your traditionally built Angular, React, and VueJS applications can be statically generated, as you don't need to rely on server-side processing.

If you're supporting the Microsoft ecosystem though, deploying these types of applications typically happen in two ways: Azure App Services or Azure Blob Storage. Both ways work but have drawbacks for serious production site.

In this session, you'll learn about the new Azure Static Web Apps platform and how you can get the best of all worlds in terms of performance and functionality. You'll see a site created and deployed within 5 minutes, the same site updated and revised with a complete CI/CD lifecycle, and server-side API functionality injected with Azure Functions.