Content Request: Add video on VS Code REST Client

[marcduiker]

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This is not a full lesson on an Azure Functions topic but a short video on how to use the REST Client in VSCode when developing Azure Functions.

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[rishabkumar7]

@marcduiker Just wondering if this lesson is just a demo for the VSCode extension for REST Client and how you can utilize it to make requests to Azure Functions?

[madebygps]

@rishabkumar7 Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's correct.

[marcduiker]

@rishabkumar7 yes correct! These tooling videos are meant to demonstrate the tool specifically in combination with Azure Functions. I see them as secondary content though. I find the lessons on the triggers & bindings (in all languages) a bit more important.

[rishabkumar7]

@marcduiker For the lesson, should it be a video, and where does the code reside for the VSCode Rest Client demo?

[marcduiker]

Hi @rishabkumar7, there is no specific content for this lesson yet. I suggest to add:

• a lesson\tooling\vscode-restclient folder with a markdown file with written instructions how the REST client can be used (see further down for the list with topics).
• a tst\tooling\vscode-restclient folder with one or more .http files that contain the various REST code snippets to execute
• The video (that we record together) will then go over the markdown lesson and demonstrate it all live.

This repo can be used to run a Function App locally and make calls to it: https://github.com/marcduiker/functionapp-deployment. If you feel that a separate solution is better suited to demonstrate the REST client than a new FunctionApp can be added to src/tooling/vscode-restclient.

I suggest the following should be present in the lesson:

1. Why the REST Client is useful when working with HttpTriggered functions.
2. How to install the REST Client
3. How to do GET requests (incl query string)
4. How to do POST requests with a JSON body
5. Using file variables
6. Using environment variables
7. Using request variables
8. Using system variables (guid, randomInt, datetime)

[marcduiker]

@rishabkumar7 still interested in this one and would you be able to do this in Jan? If so, I'm happy to assign this to you.

If not, let me know and I'll pick this one up myself.

[rishabkumar7]

@marcduiker yeah, I am interested in doing this one 👍🏽