Node notes

[jonfroehlich]

As usual, Daniel Shiffman's introductory videos are awesome. He has one for Node:
https://youtu.be/bjULmG8fqc8

Here's a nice, 7-min video on using Azure cloud services to run a Node app with Express:
https://youtu.be/uuY5j4N78vw

Here's official docs on getting Node app on Azure:

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/quickstart-nodejs?pivots=platform-linux
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/videos/create-a-nodejs-site-deploy-from-github/

We are going to use the Express—a minimal web framework on top of Node

Auto-deploy to server

Ideally, we'd be able to auto-deploy to Azure, Heroku, or Glitch (etc) using a single github repo (this one) and then setup the auto-deploy infrastructure to just look at a sub-folder within our github repo. Is this possible? Still investigating.

• https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/f3dbfb9e-b70f-4409-a118-cc3ebdf985b7/git-deploy-subdirectory?forum=windowsazurewebsitespreview
  • Looks like this is possible on Azure: https://joeraio.com/deploy-azure-web-app-or-azure-function-from-repository-folder/
• Nice blog entry of various methods to do this with Heroku: https://jtway.co/deploying-subdirectory-projects-to-heroku-f31ed65f3f2