Create a Sourdough Starter Text Message Reminder with Azure's Timer Trigger Function and Twilio SMS

Overview

Sourdough bread is made with flour, water, and starter. Starter is a live wild yeast that's made out of flour, water, and air. Unfortunately, if starter is not fed (with water and flour) regularly, it will not activate and we won't be able to make bread. And if we neglect it long enough, then, it'll die. This app allows us to set up automatic text message reminders so we don't forget to feed our starter!

Language: JavaScript

Products: Azure Functions Timer Trigger, Visual Studio Code, Twilio SMS

Features

• Text message reminders with custom message and timing using Azure Timer Trigger and Twilio

Prerequisites

Sign up for Microsoft Azure account

We'll use a free Azure subscription to set up our Timer trigger function.

Sign up for Twilio and get a phone number.

We'll use Twilio's free trial so we can get a number and use Twilio's API to text ourselves.

Download Visual Studio Code and the Azure Extension

We'll use the Azure extension in Visual Studio Code to create your function and deploy our code to our Azure portal.

Tutorial

You can find a full tutorial on how to create this text message reminder app in my blog post, So You Forgot to Feed Your Sourdough Starter Baby? 🍞👶

License

MIT

Author

👤 Sophia

• Twitter: @sophia_wyl
• GitHub: @sophi-li