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Deploy your Website on Azure with GitHub Actions like a Hipster

Jen Looper on January 31, 2020

I've been meaning to skill up in GitHub Actions for a while. You know that little tab that appears on your repo with 'Actions'? That's the one I ke...
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vaghelait •

Help! I've got everything deploying successfully as per the steps BUT when I hit Browse in the Azure Deployment Center I still get the default page - Hey Node Developers!

I checked the FTP and it has been updated. Any pointers?

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vaghelait •

Whilst this didn't work, I did manage to get it working successfully via the wizard when using the Static Web App (Preview) option in Azure. As mentioned by @jenlooper below. Thank you!

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Victorio Berra •

What did they change in GitHub desktop to allow easier pushing?

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Jen Looper •

It's this bugfix: github.com/desktop/desktop/pull/8340 - has to do with adding the workflow scope

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Victorio Berra •

Ah workflow scope. Makes sense. I had to setup ssh auth to do mine without a GUI.

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Jen Looper •

Same, and it's a PITA. Recommend upgrading GitHub Desktop app to the latest, then you're all set

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Thomas Maximini •

Love the gif ;)

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Fyodor •

Hipsters don't like YAML and all that pesky annoying configuration stuff, they push, and Netlify does everything for them 🤷‍♂️

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Jen Looper •

Tbh hipsters are far more interested in urban beekeeping than any of this stuff.

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patFish •

Great start but common projects with client site routing (using react-router for example) don't start with this explanation.

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Jen Looper •

So since I wrote this article we released Azure Static Web Apps which work a lot better. Take a look! aka.ms/trystaticwebapps