Azure Static Web Apps with Angular and Visual Studio Code

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Hey everyone, in today's post we are going to talk about how to deploy an Angular app to Azure Static Web App using Visual Studio Code.

To better understand what is Azure Static Web App, visit Azure Static Web Apps - The Big Picture

Prerequisites

NPM
Angular CLI
Visual Studio Code
Azure Static Web App extension for Visual Studio Code
Git

Once you have all prerequisites installed, let's create an Angular project and for that, create a new folder in any directory you want on your machine. You can create it using the operating system's interface, or if you prefer, run the command below in your command line tool to create a new folder.

mkdir <folder-name>

Now, using the command line, go to the folder you just created and run the command below to create an Angular project.

ng new <angular-project-name>

After creating the project, let's open it in Visual Studio Code. You can open the project using the interface or by typing the command below in your command line tool.

code .

Important: Always access the project root before opening in Visual Studio Code or you can open VS Code first and then open the project root. Always avoid opening the folder of the project you created in the previous folder, as this can lead to errors in the build and consequently in the pipeline

The next step is the deployment, so Press F1 and search for Azure Static Web App: Create Static Web Apps and select.

In the next step, we need to select the Azure Subscription, but if you are not logged into your Azure account with Visual Studio Code, an option to make the connection will be displayed.

In the next option, we need to define the name to be given to the service in Azure.

In the next step, it is time to define a name for the GitHub repository

The next step is to define the region where the resource will be created.

Now it's time to define the project type. Note that Azure Static Web Apps supports multiple frameworks and since our project is a Angular project, we should select the Angular option.

Here we need to set the path to the root of the Angular project which is /. By doing so, the runner responsible for processing the code deployment pipeline will be able to run the ng build command to generate the outputs in the dist directory.

In the last step, we need to define the application build output path and for Angular projects we need to inform the dist folder and the project name.

Finally, press enter to start creating the resource on Azure and creating the repository on GitHub.

Once the run is complete, we have an instance of Azure Static Web Apps provisioned in Azure and ready to use, and the repository on GitHub with our code. At the end, the code deployment pipeline will be executed automatically by GitHub Actions.