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Tutorials that illustrate how to build Node.js apps with VS Code, and deploy them to Azure
http://azure.com/node
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Need to add info on how azure app service can be configured for production app #16

Open nicolehaugen opened 7 years ago

nicolehaugen commented 7 years ago

The walk-through so far does a great job of showing how to get a node.js app up and running quickly on Azure. However, to truly show that an Azure app service meets a devs needs, the doc should include further instructions showing how a production app is deployed with an App Service - this could be in a "Next Steps" section of the walk-through.

The goal of this "production app" walk-through would be to emphasize that Azure app service meets needs of a production app AND that an Azure App Service still allows the dev to continue to have flexibility in using all the same tools that they already use today for a production app. For example, this portion of the walk-through could show using existing tools that Node.JS devs typically use such as: 1.) PM2, to launch the node app, so that the app is kept alive and running 2.) Grunt to automate various tasks, such as launching the app via PM2 3.) Etc.

There doesn't seem to be one, consolidated walk-through for an Azure App Service that shows this today (at least one that I could find).

I apologize in advance if this is a duplicate of any of the other issues. :)

lostintangent commented 7 years ago

Totally agreed! I think we could probably add a few extra things to this tutorial (like PM2), however, it would definitely make sense to do a "next steps" tutorial that showed off how to use deployment slots for pre-production validation, setting custom host names/SSL certs, how to scale out (auto scaling as well?), etc.

If you're interested in helping with that, let me know. I'll definitely make this a priority in the coming weeks.

nicolehaugen commented 7 years ago

Sure I would love to help with this - have you identified a core set of tools/scenario that should be included in this?