Feature request: Notifications after deployment

sportelli commented 3 years ago

Being able to have auto-deployment through Github actions is great for Azure Static WebApps, but in a project lifecycle, projet's team needs to be notified that a deployment occurred and is finished:

When pushing to the default branch, all the team needs to know when the deployment is finished without the need to go to Github Actions page.
When a developer pushes in his branch and requests for QA to test before merging - when are they both aware the deployment is finished and, even more important, how to get notified of the generated URL? They may have access to Github action, they definitely don't have access to the Azure Static WebApps resource in the Azure portal.

I would advise two notifications:

In Github, being able to have the direct access to the deployment status and the deployment URL
The first notification content should be visible in Slack / Microsoft Teams, allowing the team to know which checks/deployments have started/are finished with a direct link to the generated web URL.

I'm available on Twitter (felixsportelli) if you need any more details or if you need my teams to give you more insights on how they work.

ping @anthonychu

anthonychu commented 3 years ago

@sportelli Currently we add a comment to PRs with the preview URL, like this: https://github.com/anthonychu/20210511-vue-basic/pull/1#issuecomment-842878862

The Static Web Apps GitHub Action outputs the URL of the site (or preview URL if a PR). You can set up your own notifications: https://github.com/anthonychu/20210511-vue-basic/blob/3c773f17894c6142277490b1accbd221bd1b76eb/.github/workflows/azure-static-web-apps-wonderful-wave-0b253da10.yml#L34-L42

By setting up your own GitHub Action to send notifications, you have full control over the notification method, as well as the contents of the notification message and error handling (e.g., what to do when the build has failed). Would these solutions work?

nogic1008 commented 3 years ago

This is a sample to use Environments.

  deploy-swa:
    name: Deploy to Azure Static Web Apps
    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
    environment:
      name: Staging
      url: ${{ steps.swa-deploy.outputs.static_web_app_url }}

    steps:
      - name: Build and Deploy
        id: swa-deploy
        uses: Azure/static-web-apps-deploy@v1
        with:
          azure_static_web_apps_api_token: ${{ secrets.AZURE_STATIC_WEB_APPS_API_TOKEN }}
          repo_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          action: upload

Result is here result

Azure / static-web-apps

Feature request: Notifications after deployment #418