How to do Azure functions deployment for node app in azure pipeline yml?

Question

I have a working build job. It builds a few different function apps written in node js. It is very simple to deploy these using visual studio code, but I cannot fathom how to write a working deployment job for this in devops pipelines yml.

I think one way has to be archiving my 'dist' folder after building and somehow offering the archive to e.g. 'AzureFunctionApp@1' task.

Am I on a correct path? It seems I cannot find definite answer from documentation.

Answer 1

I figured out that I was on the right track. The problem was that the stages did not share visibility on the archive. So I got to get forward by publishing the archive so that the build stage could download it. I also noticed that I can skip the archiving and just publish the dist folder.

## In the build stage: 
    - publish: './dist'
            artifact: distFolder

## In the deploy stage:
          - download: current
            artifact: distFolder

          - task: AzureFunctionApp@1
          ...

One further question though. Is there a way to do the pipeline deployment without package file?