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Create named preview environments in Azure Static Web Apps

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You can configure your site to deploy every change to a named environment. This preview deployment is published at a stable URL that includes the environment name. For example, if the environment is named release, then the preview is available at a location like <DEFAULT_HOST_NAME>-release.<LOCATION>.azurestaticapps.net.

Configuration

To enable stable URL environments with named deployment environment, make the following changes to your configuration file.

  • Set the deployment_environment input to a specific name on the static-web-apps-deploy job in GitHub action or on the AzureStaticWebApp task. This ensures all changes to your tracked branches are deployed to the named preview environment.
  • List the branches you want to deploy to preview environments in the trigger array in your workflow configuration so that changes to those branches also trigger the GitHub Actions or Azure Pipelines deployment.
    • Set this array to ** for GitHub Actions or * for Azure Pipelines if you want to track all branches.

Example

The following example demonstrates how to enable branch preview environments.

name: Azure Static Web Apps CI/CD

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - "**"
  pull_request:
    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened, closed]
    branches:
      - main

jobs:
  build_and_deploy_job:
    ...
    name: Build and Deploy Job
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          submodules: true
      - name: Build And Deploy
        id: builddeploy
        uses: Azure/static-web-apps-deploy@v1
        with:
          ...
          deployment_environment: "release"

Note

The ... denotes code skipped for clarity.

In this example, changes to all branches get deployed to the release named preview environment.

Next Steps

Review pull requests in pre-production environments