9 Unique Hands-On Quests for JS/ TS Developers to Build AI Apps on Azure AI Foundry, and gain a deeper understanding of AI Technologies, Tools and Frameworks.
✨ Register for the online JS AI Build-a-thon Event Series ✨
- 👩💻 Who this is for: Developers → AI Engineers
- 🧠 What you'll learn: To Seamlessly Integrate AI Capabilities into Web Applications. The build-a-thon is designed to get you from Not having worked with AI → building local AI prototypes → deploying and extending AI applications on Azure
- 🛠️ What you'll do:
- 💻 Build Local AI Prototypes with GitHub Models & AI Toolkit Extension (NO AZURE ACCOUNT NEEDED)
- 🔄 Migrate Prototype to Azure (GitHub Models → Azure AI Foundry)
- ☁️ Deploy Models and Use in Code with the Azure AI Foundry Extension
- 📊 Connect to external data with RAG, add conversation history with LangChain.js
- 🤖 Build an AI Agent with Azure AI Foundry Extension
- 🧰 Extend Agent with MCP Tools using the AI Toolkit Extension
- ⚡ Automate your dev workflows with GitHub Models and GenAIScript (NO AZURE ACCOUNT NEEDED)
1️⃣ Right Click on the Start Course ↓ button below and open in a new tab.
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Owner: Your personal account
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Repository name: Your GitHub username +
-AI-Build-a-thon(e.g.johndoe-AI-Build-a-thon) -
We recommend creating a public repository, as private repositories will use Actions minutes.
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Give your repository a name, such as
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Privacy: Public
⚠️ Ensure you select Public. If you select Private, GitHub Actions will not work. -
Scroll down and click the Create repository button at the bottom of the form.
2️⃣ After you click the Create repository button, ⏳ WAIT FOR ABOUT 20 SECONDS, THEN REFRESH THE PAGE.
GitHub Actions will AUTOMATICALLY UPDATE YOUR README WITH THE NEXT STEP
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