Flow JAM Stack Episode 1 - sending data back with Flow as API

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In this follow on episde, we dive a fair way in to see how we can customize Flow’s Request trigger to build a web service (API endpoint) that can be called from our static website.

Episode 1

  • Create a Flow service

  • Configure the form input params

  • Configure the service return HTML Redirect

  • Talk about embedding HTML FORM in static sites, but also hosted site scenarios - SharePoint, Power Apps Portal Apps, WordPress, SquareSpace.

We are deliberately going slowly going through some pitfalls and errors that you may see along the way, so the episode is progressing slowly, but I hope that’s the right direction to do this - we make sure there’s a firm foundation before moving to the next step.

I had initially hoped to get into API management, but it looks like that’ll be in a future episode.

In this episode, we extend the application with a HTML Form that will send messages back to Flow, which we then store into our backend datasource. If you hav...