通过GitHub部署时，Express 4应用程序在Azure中不起作用

Question

I'm working on an Express app that I initially created from the Basic Azure Node.js Express 4 Application template in Visual Studio. In other words, it has the web.config modifications necessary to support Express 4's www\\bin structure .

This app works fine when debugging via Visual Studio or running directly via Node command line. However, deployments from source control do not work when I hooked it up to the GitHub repo. I can see the project root in the site\\wwwroot folder. Even more strange, publishing directly from Visual Studio works.

Answer 1

This turned out to be a simple oversight, but I feel that it can easily trip up others so I'll share the answer here. I'm using the Visual Studio .gitignore file from GitHub and it includes a rule to ignore [Bb]in/ as these are usually build output. My commits were not including the contents of /bin , so my continuous deployment obviously wasn't picking these up either. Simply commenting out this line fixed this issue.