microsoft / microsoft/vscode-azurestaticwebapps

Improve Specificity in Instructions & Documentation. "App location" is ambiguous

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Description

From the UI:

Enter the location of your application code. For example, '/' represents the root of your app...

What does this mean? What is "root of your app"? Do you mean "root of your source code repository"? Or the root of the directory I currently have open (which might not be the repo root)? Or the path to the app at run-time? On the server file system or in the URL?

From the docs:

The app location is where the project app code lives. For example, if the src folder exists in the app folder, then the value app should be entered.

The docs add more confusion than explanation.

if the src folder exists in the app folder, then the value app should be entered

What? Why would it not be /app/src ? Is /src going to be implicitly added to whatever path I enter?

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Research direction

Review the UI instruction and the wiki's “app location” section linked in the issue first. Clarify what the path is relative to and how the app and src example should be interpreted; done means the UI and documentation give the same unambiguous guidance.

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Assessment

Tech stack
azure, typescript, vscode
Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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