lostintangent
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7 years ago If you look at the Category column when searching in the Azure portal, you'll see that these aren't VM images, they're actually App Service web app templates (labeled as Web + Mobile). Selecting these will provision a new web app that comes pre-installed with a sample/starter Node.js app.
I'll send a mail to the App Service team about these templates and whether they're maintaining them. They appear to be the same set as is provided by the Try App Service site.
When you create a VM through the Azure Portal, and you type in "node js" into the image search, intellisense shows two images that you can pick:
1.) Node JS Starter Site 2.) Node JS Empty Web App
Likewise, if you go to the Azure Marketplace and search for "Node", you'll see that these images are the first two hits in the market place.
The following doc issues exist with these:
1.) There needs to be better documentation on how to use these images for learning/getting started purposes. I couldn't find any information on these other than the brief summary of what the images contain (see below); yet these 2 images pop up first in the search results for "node".
2.) If you then click the "Learn More" links in either the market place location for these images or through the Azure Portal, you'll get a "page not found" error.
Overall, it's confusing what the intention of these are and yet they show fairly prominently through Azure marketplace and portal.
Here's where you can find them in the marketplace: Node JS Starter Site Node JS Empty Site
Also, when you create a new VM in the portal, simply type "node js" into the search field and you'll see them come up.