Azure / Azure/static-web-apps-cli

UX: Visual Studio Publish feature should not require manual Node installation

Open
#725 1 comment 1 reaction 1 assignee Claimed by @Reshmi-Sriram View on GitHub
Dominant language
TypeScript
Stars
668
Forks
156
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Description

**Are you accessing the CLI from the default port `:4280` ?**

- [ ] No, I am using a different port number (`--port`) and accessing the CLI from that port
- [ ] Yes, I am accessing the CLI from port `:4280`
- [x] N/A

> Make sure you are accessing the URL printed in the console when running `swa start`!

N/A

**ℹ️ NOTE: Make sure to enable debug logs when running any `swa` commands using `--verbose=silly`**

N/A

**Describe the bug**
When I use Publish feature in Visual Studio it is a very poor user experience that I have to manually install NodeJS and in it manually install SWA CLI. Visual Studio already comes with NodeJS distribution with few packages installed. It is totally unclear why the feature requires a separate NodeJS/NPM installation. I am not a NodeJS developer. Neither Node, nor NPM are my tools and I only hear about them in forums/social networks.

**To Reproduce**
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Prereq: there's no system-wide NodeJS installation, and neither node.exe nor npm are in PATH.

1. In Visual Studio publish a web site, and choose a Static Web App resource as a target
2. Hit Publish

**Expected behavior**

My .html page with a few .js files should publish

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Assessment

This issue has not been assessed yet.

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.