Testing out the Azure Static Web Apps service. Let’s try to deploy this blog into an static web app
If you only care about the end result, I upload the final result in this GitHub repository: github-link
This repository contains the entire blog source code.
In the "/infrastructure" folder you can find an ARM template that is used to create the static web app.
In the /.github/workflows folder you can find a couple of github actions:
The infrastructure.yml file is a github action that creates the resources on Azure.
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