Deploy nodejs project to a virtual application using Visual Studio Code

Jeroen H 40 Reputation points
2024-09-03T14:36:44.8433333+00:00

Hi,

I'm trying to deploy a nodejs express app to a virtual application of an Azure web app I own.

I wrote the application with Visual Studio Code, but from there I'm only able to deploy it directly to the service itself, with no option for subdomains/virtual applications. The subdirectory (nor any other file except for 'hostingstart.html') also does not show up when inspecting the service's folders in Visual Studio Code's Azure extension.

Deploying to virtual projects is possible using Visual Studio, but doing this for nodejs has proven very troublesome and not something that is intented/well documented in recent years?

I'd expect Visual Studio Code's Azure Extension to have this feature built in, am I missing something?

Side note: it appears that no question tags exist for Visual Studio Code, how come?

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  1. Jeroen H 40 Reputation points
    2024-09-04T12:04:15.4766667+00:00

    Thank you @Lex Li (Microsoft) ,

    Looking at Azure-VsCode's feature request and issue list, this is not currently supported, and has been deemed as out-of-scope and not planned, unfortunately.

    A recommended workaround of using Kudu deployement is advised. Here, a custom deployment directory can be specified in a .deployment file. I wasn't able to get it to work, but maybe others reading this will have more success.

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