We are excited to add to our earlier App Event function announcement, with our newest type of function: App Action Functions! App functions (both Action and Event) are currently available in beta. You can join the beta via the Preview Center, which you will find under the account menu when you are logged in to your Contentful account.

App Action Functions are a new capability of the Contentful App Framework where development teams can use Functions to execute serverless code on the Contentful platform, removing the need for dependence on external infrastructure.

App Action functions can be called via the CMA and are often triggered by a user interacting with some UI component in your app. For example, a user might click a button that triggers a CMA call to your app action, which is mapped to your function, that can then perform the task defined by the code written in the function. Stay tuned for the next addition to the App Functions Beta: Synchronous App Actions.