Introduction

Function Monkey is an alternative API for creating Azure Functions which by having a strong opinion over a core pattern, mediation, is able to achieve a number of key design goals:

To allow functions to be created and configured with a clean fluent style API
To reduce the typical boilerplate associated with functions
To separate the implementation of a function from its trigger and wrap around infrastructural code
To provide a minimal runtime framework for typical C# / .NET patterns such as IoC and input validation
To enable REST APIs to be elegantly built along with support for bearer token authorization, claims, and Swagger/OpenApi
To improve the testability of functions
To co-exist in a project with standard attribute based Azure Functions

Function Monkey is built on Azure Functions v2 and the AzureFromTheTrenches.Commanding mediation framework and provided as a .NET Standard 2.0 package.

Please note that Function Monkey, like Azure Functions v2, is still in preview and so is subject to breaking change. That said the public API for Function Monkey has settled down nicely at this point and is being used in a number of projects.

If you do encounter any issues or have any feedback please do let me know in the GitHub issue tracker or on Twitter - I might not get around to it immediately but I really appreciate it!