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Part 1 - Azure Functions V2 + VS Code + PnPJs === true
Simon Ågren
Simon Ågren
November 11, 2018
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Table Of Contents

01
The posts in this series
02
Installing prerequisites
03
Install Azure Function extension
Part 1 - Azure Functions V2 + VS Code + PnPJs === true

The posts in this series

  • Part 1 - Azure Functions V2 + VS Code + PnPJs === true
  • Part 2 - Azure Functions V2 + VS Code + PnPJs === true
  • Part 3 - Azure Functions V2 + VS Code + PnPJs === true
  • Part 4 - Azure Functions V2 + VS Code + PnPJs === true

As the title may hint, you’re up for some JavaScript!

Today I had a few moments over and decided to have look at Azure Functions V2. In all honesty, It’s been quite some time since I played around with Azure Functions, and back then I only made one or two PnP PowerShell scripts. It felt really interesting digging into this again.

Anyways, I started to think about using PnPJs in the JavaScript function, and this might not be news to some of you, but for me this was exciting!

This first blog post will be a lot about setup and getting PnPJs to work with an Azure Function. The next post will include some deployment, local vs production variables, the Azure Storage Emulator, etc. Then in the third post, I will write some about Orchestrations and how we can utilize the strengths of functions vs more classic approaches.

So I ended up creating everything from Visual Studio code (you could use the CLI), and I want to share how I did it.

Installing prerequisites

npm i -g azure-functions-core-tools@2

Install Azure Function extension

  1. I installed from this url. But you could also search for “Azure Functions” among the extensions in VS Code.

  2. Restart VS Code.

  3. Select the Azure Icon -> sign in to Azure. extension

Create a new project

  1. Select the Create a new Project icon -> make a new folder -> then select it.

newproj

  1. Select JavaScript as language

  2. Choose Add To WorkSpace

Create Azure Function

  1. Select the “Create Function” icon newfunc

  2. Select your folder and choose HTTPTrigger

  3. Type in a name -> select Anonymous authentication.

Now we have a function!

Register an Add-in

Since we will call SharePoint from outside of SharePoint, we need to register an “add-in” to get some values that we will use later on.

Please head to the debugging documentation for PnPJs and follow the Register an Add-in and Grant your add-in permissions. Then come back right away!

Init with NPM

Because we’re going to add a few dependencies from npm, we need to create a package.json file.

First make sure you have a node console open, cd into the project folder. Then run this command:

npm init

You will be asked a few things, I just went with the default values.

Install PnPJs Dependencies

I ran this command to add these dependencies to the package.json file.

npm install @pnp/logging @pnp/common @pnp/odata @pnp/sp @pnp/nodejs --save

Creating local variables

In the local.settings.json, I added some values. We will come back to this file in the next post.

This is how mine looks like:

{
"IsEncrypted": false,
"Values": {
"AzureWebJobsStorage": "",
"FUNCTIONS_WORKER_RUNTIME": "node",
"spId": "{ appId }",
"spSecret": "{ appSecret }",
"spTenantUrl": "{ https://tenant.sharepoint.com }",
"spNotificationUrl": "{ notification url }",
"graphTenant": " { tenant.onmicrosoft.com }",
"graphId": "{ AzureAppId }",
"graphSecret": "{ AzureAppSecret }"
}
}

Let’s write some code

Go into the index.js of the function. I only changed a few things and made a simple example.

First off I added the PnPJs packages I needed. As far as I know you cannot use normal imports OOTB in NodeJS, so I am using require.

// equal to: import { sp } from "@pnp/sp;"
const sp = require("@pnp/sp").sp;
// equal to: import { SPFetchClient } from "@pnp/nodejs;"
const SPFetchClient = require("@pnp/nodejs").SPFetchClient;

Then I changed the query string property from name to site. I’m using the value as siteName for the PnPJs setup. This site will be the default when using PnPJs.

if (req.query.site || (req.body && req.body.site)) {
const siteName = req.query.site || req.body.site;
sp.setup({
sp: {
fetchClientFactory: () => {
return new SPFetchClient(
`${process.env.spTenantUrl}/sites/${siteName}/`,
process.env.spId,
process.env.spSecret);
},
},
});

So after the setup, we make a call to our SharePoint site and selects the Title from the web and get all of the Lists in the web. Then we send a response text back to the user.

// Get the web and all the Lists
const web = await sp.web.select("Title").expand('Lists').get();
context.res = {
// status: 200, /* Defaults to 200 */
body: "All of the lists in the site " + web.Title + ": " + web.Lists.map(list => list.Title).join(', ')
};

Full code

// equal to: import { sp } from "@pnp/sp;"
const sp = require("@pnp/sp").sp;
// equal to: import { SPFetchClient } from "@pnp/nodejs;"
const SPFetchClient = require("@pnp/nodejs").SPFetchClient;
module.exports = async function (context, req) {
context.log('JavaScript HTTP trigger function processed a request.');
if (req.query.site || (req.body && req.body.site)) {
const siteName = req.query.site || req.body.site;
sp.setup({
sp: {
fetchClientFactory: () => {
return new SPFetchClient(
`${process.env.spTenantUrl}/sites/${siteName}/`,
process.env.spId,
process.env.spSecret);
},
},
});
// Get the web and all the Lists
const web = await sp.web.select("Title").expand('Lists').get();
context.res = {
// status: 200, /* Defaults to 200 */
body: "All of the lists in the site " + web.Title + ": " + web.Lists.map(list => list.Title).join(', ')
};
}
else {
context.res = {
status: 400,
body: "Please pass a site on the query string or in the request body"
};
}
};

Debugging

  1. Set a breakpoint if you want to have a closer look.

  2. Press F5 and let everything load up.

  3. Open a blank page in the browser and enter ex: http://localhost:7071/api/HttpFunction?site=test3

  4. Watch the response in the browser!

Congrats, you have now made a working Azure Function V2, that you could deploy to Azure. Just make sure the dependencies follow along.

Next steps

As I mentioned at the beginning of the post I will soon create another post on this subject, so stay tuned!


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