How to run npm command on azure app service after deployment success by VSTS?

Question

Now I can deploy from VSTS to azure, but I can't run npm after deploy is successful.

Now it is work like -> run npm install for branch files => zip => copy to azure => deploy.

I want to add npm run custom-comand to end of this chain. How to do it?

Answer 1

The Azure App Service Deployment task in VSTS now supports a post-deployment script. Here is a screen-shot from version 3.* of the task:

See Task Parameters for more details.

Windows App Services users: Watch out for an npm bug that prevents multiple npm commands from being run (inline or in a script). For example:

npm install
npm test

Will only run npm install. There are several workarounds including this:

npm install & npm test

Answer 2

There is no out of box build task to achieve the feature you want. If you do want to run the npm from Azure App Service:

Manually: You can go to Kudu console of the App Service and run npm command there:

Automatically: You need to create your own build task to run the npm command via Kudu Rest API