Custom NodeJs Deployment on Azure Web App

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Custom NodeJs Deployment on Azure Web App

https://blog.lifeishao.com/2017/03/24/custom-nodejs-deployment-on-azure-web-app/

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Originally posted by Serioth on 2018-10-28 08:48

Great post, thank you. Any idea how to best tell Azure to use dist/server.js, which is created after webpack builds a bundle and outputs to dist folder?

The problem I am facing is that Kudu seems to check if the folder exist, but it doe snot exist before webpack creates it. So it reports:

remote: Start script "dist/server.js" from package.json is not found.

Thank you very much

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Originally posted by dekel yaacov on 2018-12-01 02:01

have you managed to solve that? I'm using typescript and facing the same issue

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Originally posted by Serioth on 2018-12-01 11:32

I did actually. You just have to create your own web.config, with all references to server.js swapped with dist/server.js.

When there is already a web.config present, Kudu will use that instead of trying to create one itself.

Hope that helps.

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Originally posted by dekel yaacov on 2018-12-01 15:09

I tried for hours, nothing works.
1. in the deploy.sh script, I run "npm run build" which creates the dist folder.
2. in web.config in my repo, I changed

what am I missing?
I still see in the logs that the post-deployment script executes "node index.js"

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Originally posted by Marshal King on 2020-06-01 19:55

Is it possible to let Kudo respect start scripts parameters?

I'm using pino-rotating-file which requires to redirect stdout like:
"start": "node src/app.js | rotate-logs"

However in Kudo, it only runs node src/app.js and ignores the rest of parameters, i.e. the piping bit, which invalidates rotate-logs. I think it's bit nasty.