Tab App with Azure Backend

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Microsoft Teams supports the ability to run web-based UI inside "custom tabs" that users can install either for just themselves (personal tabs) or within a team or group chat context.

Hello World Tab with Backend shows you how to build a tab app with an Azure Function as backend, how to get user login information with SSO and how to call Azure Function from frontend tab.

Note: This sample will only provision single tenant Azure Active Directory app. For multi-tenant support, please refer to this wiki.

This sample illustrates

• How to use Teams Toolkit to create a Teams tab app.
• How to use TeamsFx SDK to call Azure Functions.
• How to use TeamsFx SDK in Azure Function to call Graph to get user info.

Prerequisites

• Node.js, supported versions: 16, 18
• A Microsoft 365 account. If you do not have Microsoft 365 account, apply one from Microsoft 365 developer program
• Teams Toolkit Visual Studio Code Extension version 5.0.0 and higher or TeamsFx CLI

Note

• This sample has adopted On-Behalf-Of Flow to implement SSO.

• This sample uses Azure Function as middle-tier service, and make authenticated requests to call Graph from Azure Function.

• Due to system webview limitations, users in the tenant with conditional access policies applied cannot consent permissions when conduct an OAuth flow within the Teams mobile clients, it would show error: "xxx requires you to secure this device...".

Minimal path to awesome

Run the app locally

• From VS Code:

  1. hit F5 to start debugging. Alternatively open the Run and Debug Activity Panel and select Debug in Teams (Edge) or Debug in Teams (Chrome).

• From TeamsFx CLI:

  1. Run command: teamsapp provision --env local .
  2. Run command: teamsapp deploy --env local .
  3. Run command: teamsapp preview --env local .

Deploy the app to Azure

• From VS Code:

  1. Sign into Azure by clicking the Sign in to Azure under the ACCOUNTS section from sidebar.
  2. Click Provision from LIFECYCLE section or open the command palette and select: Teams: Provision.
  3. Click Deploy or open the command palette and select: Teams: Deploy.

• From TeamsFx CLI:

  1. Run command: teamsapp auth login azure.
  2. Run command: teamsapp provision --env dev.
  3. Run command: teamsapp deploy --env dev.

Preview the app in Teams

• From VS Code:

  1. Open the Run and Debug Activity Panel. Select Launch Remote (Edge) or Launch Remote (Chrome) from the launch configuration drop-down.

• From TeamsFx CLI:

  1. Run command: teamsapp preview --env dev.

Run the app locally with proxy

In some scenarios, it is helpful to skip the login and authentication flow and then provide mocked Graph API responses for development and test purpose. This sample provides a new way to debug it with proxy for mocking Graph API responses. You can customize the desired Graph API responses.

1. Refer to Get started with Dev Proxy to install devproxy first.
2. Open the project with VS Code, open the Run and Debug Activity Panel and select Debug in Teams with proxy (Edge).
3. Please refer to Proxy Mode for more information.

Version History

Date	Author	Comments
May 18, 2022	hund030	update to support Teams Toolkit v4.0.0
Dec 8, 2022	hund030	update to support Teams Toolkit v5.0.0
Mar 11, 2024	xzf0587	update to support proxy

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