Project overview

The main aim of this project will be to set up the backend for a chat application. The biggest part of the project will be the configuration that we will carry out in the Azure portal. We will also write some code for the Azure Functions that will handle the SignalR connections. There will be one function to return information about the SignalR connection and one that posts messages to the SignalR service. The function that we will post messages to will also determine whether the message contains an image. If it does, it will be sent to the Vision API in Azure Cognitive Services to analyze whether it contains adult content. If it does, it won't be posted to the SignalR service and the other users will not get it. Because the SignalR Service has a limitation about how big messages can be, we need to store images in Blob storage and just post the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of the image to the users. Because we don't save any chat history in this app, we also...