deployment - Deploy website to azure with bower dependencies

Question

I have an ASPNET mvc project using both Nuget and Bower for dependencies. Now I need to either trigger bower to install components upon deployment or as fallback include the packages by allowing them in my .gitignore. Of course I would like to not include those in the repo and just have them installed while deploying, just like with nuget packages. I tried to follow this guide http://gregtrowbridge.com/deploying-a-bower-dependent-node-app-on-windows-azure/ but still nothing seems to happen. So any help is welcome :)

Best regards

Answer 1

All of Azure Websites workers have bower pre-installed and should be on your path.

All you need to do is add a custom deployment script that would do bower install Here is a sample repo for an ASP.NET MVC site that uses bower

Basically make sure bower.json is there and referenced in your csproj

    <Content Include="bower.json" />

Then download your custom deployment script. if you go to https://<yourSiteName>.scm.azurewebsites.net then click on Tools -> Download custom deployment script or just download it from D:homedeploymentools then check it in the root of your repo like here basically there will be 2 files deploy.cmd and .deployment

this is the deployment logic, add a step to restore bower in it like here after the last step there

:: 4. Bower Install
if EXIST "%DEPLOYMENT_TARGET%ower.json" (
    pushd "%DEPLOYMENT_TARGET%"
    call :ExecuteCmd bower install
    IF !ERRORLEVEL! NEQ 0 goto error
    popd
)