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Hack Together

The JavaScript on Azure Global Hack

Join Hack Together: The JavaScript on Azure Global Hack, a 15-day virtual hack experience to learn as you contribute to a real-world End-to-end Application with Azure Functions, Static Web Apps & Azure Cosmos DB from Aug 16.

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Official Learn Collection

Engage in a self-paced learning adventure by completing the JavaScript on Azure Global Hack Learn Collection to learn and develop essential practical skills to build enterprise-grade modern composable frontends and cloud-native applications. Start your learning today!

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Reactor Live Events

Join our Reactor Live streams to interact with Microsoft experts.

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Prerequisites for Hack Together

  • Azure for students

    Build in the cloud for free with Azure for Students! Activate your benefit to receive $100 Azure credits to build amazing contributions and access up to 55+ Azure services for free.

  • Connect with experts on GitHub Discussion

    An answer is just one question away. When you need help, don’t hesitate to ask questions in the GitHub Discussion for this hack. Our experts will always be there to help you and answer your questions.

  • Free Pro level access to Codespaces

    Create a Codespace to start developing in a secure, configurable, and dedicated development environment that works how and where you want it to.

Individual Reactor sessions

  • Hack Together Launch – Opening Keynote

    Join us to go through the Contoso Real Estate architecture and show you how to set up your own environment for the project. We'll provide contribution instructions to help you get involved in the project and make a meaningful impact.

  • Introduction to GitHub Copilot

    In this session, you'll learn how to harness the power of Copilot to write code faster and more efficiently than ever before. We'll cover the basics of Copilot, installation and configuration, and hands-on exercises to help you get started.

  • Build your Frontend with Azure Static Web Apps

    In this session, we'll give you a gentle introduction to Static Web Apps and the SWA CLI and their benefits, and dive into a demo of the Contoso Real Estate project, showing you how it uses Static Web Apps to deploy changes quickly and easily.

  • Build a Serverless Backend with Azure Functions

    Join us for a gentle introduction to serverless backends and how Azure Functions can help you build them quickly and easily. We'll dive into a demo of the Contoso Real Estate project, showing you how it uses Azure Functions to power its backend.

  • Build & connect to your database with Azure Cosmos DB

    In this session, we'll dive into how you can store and manage your data on Azure Cosmos DB exploring its global distribution and scalability. Then, we'll dive into a demo of the Contoso Real Estate project, showing you how it uses Azure Cosmos DB to manage data.

  • Introduction to Azure OpenAI Service

    Join us for an introduction to the world of AI with Azure OpenAI and how to harness the power of OpenAI to build intelligent applications that can learn, reason, and adapt. We'll cover the basics of Azure OpenAI, set up and configuration, and some hands-on exercises to help you get started.