Linked backends are now Generally Available!

[thomasgauvin]

Last week at Microsoft Build, we announced that our linked backends feature is now GA! 🎉

With linked APIs, you can link your APIs to your Static Web Apps resource so that API requests made to the /api endpoint are automatically routed to the linked API. Linked APIs for Azure Static Web Apps supports Azure Function, Azure App Service, Azure Container App and Azure API Management backends.

Linked backends allows you to leverage the following key features:

• Integrated security with direct access to user authentication and role-based authorization data.
• Seamless routing that makes the /api route available to the front-end web app without requiring custom CORS rules.

Essentially, by using linked backends, you can use Static Web Apps' built-in authentication and authorization, and you benefit from seamless routing without having to configure CORS.

Get started with linked backends here: https://aka.ms/swa/apis