This section is the practical side of Cloud Functions: setting up your workstation, writing a function end-to-end, pairing it with a UI Component, and keeping your workspace up to date as new SDK versions are released.

If you're new, the recommended path is to go through the Prerequisites (Windows users only), then walk through How to create a Cloud Function front to back. Once that's working, How to visualize a Cloud Function in a UI Component builds on the same example.

For the concepts behind what you're building, see Cloud Functions Basics. For the API surface you'll use inside your function code, see Cloud Functions SDK.

In this section

• Prerequisites for Microsoft Windows systems — Set up WSL2, Python, and a VS Code workflow on Windows.
• How to create a Cloud Function — A full walkthrough from a fresh workspace to a deployed function, with a realistic example.
• How to visualize a Cloud Function in a UI Component — Build a UI Component that calls your Cloud Function and renders its response in the browser.
• Updating the Cloud Function workspace — Upgrading your workspace and Python version when a new release of ixoncdkingress is published.