Azure Static Web Apps, with Azure Functions built in, already deliver powerful user interfaces, but running in the browser direcctly they lack native WebPubSub support for real-time updates.

In this session, we will show how to bridge this gap by cleverly wiring Azure Functions to an Azure Web Pub Sub hub, enabling instant notifications to users when data changes without browser refreshes.

We'll start with a simple messaging application allows users to talk to each other (bring your phones to join in the live demo!) before looking at a real world use case of how we can use this to make great applications!

Hands on, we start with a working synchronous application to manage our books. We'll about the shortcomings of the system (and the Static Web App it's built upon), before changing the Functions to set up connection to a SignalR hub and add some events to see the functions working!

This is a new talk for Autumn 2025 and is aimed at DotNet deveopers.