I would really like to use the static web app feature for a Blazor web Assembly app - alongside a paid subscription for a normal Web App, to host an API. It's a case of being able to use both on Azure, or host both together elsewhere. I'm really struggling however to get content to the static web app. I don't want to use CI/CD to push content from GitHub or DevOps. I just want to be able to publish from Visual Studio (or even upload via FTP). Please can someone tell me how can I publish content to a static web app, without using CI/CD? Thank you

Hi @Dunce-2045, The team is evaluating other alternatives and some work is in progress; however, right now, GitHub and Azure DevOps are the only deployment providers currently supported. I can't provide a timetable for when additional provider support will be added. EDIT: 2022-02-02 GitHub repos support an OOB experience. For other repositories such as Azure DevOps, BitBucket, you can leverage the deployment token for use in any deployment pipeline. The team is working to bring more of these integrated experiences into the fold but for now, below are some tutorial workarounds. Tutorial: Publish Azure Static Web Apps with GitLab Tutorial: Publish Azure Static Web Apps with BitBucket

Publishing content to Azure Static Web Apps without using CI/CD

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Ryan Hill 27,111 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-08-25T15:29:53.197+00:00
Hi @Dunce-2045,

The team is evaluating other alternatives and some work is in progress; however, right now, GitHub and Azure DevOps are the only deployment providers currently supported. I can't provide a timetable for when additional provider support will be added.

EDIT: 2022-02-02

GitHub repos support an OOB experience. For other repositories such as Azure DevOps, BitBucket, you can leverage the deployment token for use in any deployment pipeline. The team is working to bring more of these integrated experiences into the fold but for now, below are some tutorial workarounds.

Tutorial: Publish Azure Static Web Apps with GitLab

Tutorial: Publish Azure Static Web Apps with BitBucket
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Dunce 41 Reputation points

2021-08-26T03:58:53.233+00:00

Great, thank you so much

Juan Carlos 6 Reputation points

2022-02-21T17:42:08.147+00:00

Really bad user experience imho, Netlify, AWS Amplify offer drag and drop deployment options, here you only have CI/CD and once you've created the resource, there's no way to add a source using the portal. Unfortunately have to stay away from this until a better product is built

Ryan Hill 27,111 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2022-02-22T16:28:48.453+00:00

@Juan Carlos , thanks for your feedback. I've updated my answer as the deployment token can be used for any deployment method you choose.

As for a better out of box experience for selecting other repository providers (e.g. Bit Bucket, Local Git, etc.) when creating your static web app, I'll pass that feedback along to the team.

Nikos Titomichelakis 1 Reputation point

2022-02-24T12:37:45.63+00:00

Hello, to add to what @Juan Carlos said, Vercel, Netlify, AWS not only offer drag and drop, but also deployment of the build folder through cli. It's really as simple as executing a one-liner command. Whereas, in the Azure deployment process, you have to git pull, build, git push and wait for the action to finish only for deploying a build folder (I bypass the build process inside the github action to speedup the process).
You already have so many features bundled to the az staticwebapp CLI. Adding a deployment of the build folder is not that hard. The static web app feature was introduced on March of 2021 as beta. It's been almost a year and features that your competitors provided since day 1 are still not implemented.

Please provide feedback to the corresponding team. Using a github repo for the deployment process is really an utmost incovenience for many of us!

Ryan Hill 27,111 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2022-02-24T15:42:17.597+00:00

The feedback has been relayed and the team is working to bring deployment without a CI/CD in the upcoming months.

Christopher Barnaby 0 Reputation points

2023-03-24T22:18:45.8166667+00:00

Hi @Ryan Hill - has SWA deployment without CI/CD been rolled out yet? I'm trying to define an SWA in a bicep file and then deploy that resource and the site's static assets from a public URL (eg, a publicly accessible AZ storage container), but haven't been able to figure it out.

Our use case is that we have an SWA with a Function App API linked back end developed internally, but would like to distribute this to customers using a Bicep file/ARM template to deploy their own instances of the Azure Function and SWA (the resource + the site itself) themselves via ARM.
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