user authentication for web pubsub

Question

Azure Web App has authentication of users under settings as a means of app access without effecting code. Where is this in Web pubsub? Also, there is no publish profile under Web pubsub, so how is publishing done from Visual Studio?

Answer 1

you can leverage Azure AD for user authentication and use it to issue access tokens for Web PubSub

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-web-pubsub/concept-azure-ad-authorization

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-web-pubsub/howto-use-managed-identity

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-web-pubsub/samples-authenticate-and-connect

Azure Web PubSub doesn't have a "publish profile" like Web Apps. To publish messages to Azure Web PubSub you need to deploy your code. Code deployment doesn't apply to Web PubSub in the same way as it does for Azure Web Apps. However, you might be referring to how to integrate Web PubSub into your application code or deploying your code that uses the Web PubSub service.

you can install the Azure Web PubSub client library in your Visual Studio project

Get the connection string for your Azure Web PubSub instance from the Azure portal.

ans you need to integrated SDK to you code as follows

WebPubSubClient client = new WebPubSubClient(connectionString);  

// Publish a message to a hub 
await client.SendToAllAsync("myHub", "Hello, everyone!");    

// Publish to a specific group  
await client.SendToGroupAsync("myHub", "group1", "Targeted message");