Finding the reference documentation for server-side JavaScript code in Azure Mobile Services applications

If you've followed Microsoft's Azure platform developments, you might have heard of Azure Mobile Services, which have been available for over a year now, in August, 2012.

Now, if you aren't familiar with Azure Mobile Services yet (its announcement didn't create a big splash at least around these corners of the globe), it's a polished, web-based way to create a backend system for your mobile, desktop or web application in just a couple of minutes. Although the premium support is on Windows client platforms (think Windows Phone and Windows 8 store apps), there's no limit to actually use the technology to support any other platform, as well.

Now, the interesting thing is that all server-side logic is written in JavaScript. Sounds a lot like Node.js, doesn't it? This is fine for many applications, and naturally you can still run your custom-built ASP.NET web applications on Azure. However, for Mobile Services, the backend code is all JavaScript.

The bigger question is, what can you do with this JavaScript? The various blog posts from official sources show neat examples, but where do you find the documentation?

Good news: it's available here. Again, it's a vast new ground to cover, and Azure indeed is one of the rapidly-pacing areas currently for developers.

I'm excited to see what's coming next!