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

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

Then download your custom deployment script. if you go to https://.scm.azurewebsites.net then click on Tools -> Download custom deployment script or just download it from D:\home\deployment\tools 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%\bower.json" (
    pushd "%DEPLOYMENT_TARGET%"
    call :ExecuteCmd bower install
    IF !ERRORLEVEL! NEQ 0 goto error
    popd
)