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Question

I created a build definition in vsts with npm build and then I copy the build folder to the drop location.

The build pipeline is working fine

Then I created

Answer 1

In my case (react app deployed as static content to app service) I needed to add a step to archive the build directory before publishing it:

- task: ArchiveFiles@2
  inputs:
    rootFolderOrFile: '$(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)/build' 
    includeRootFolder: false 
    archiveType: 'zip'
    archiveFile: '$(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/$(Build.BuildId).zip'

- publish: $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/$(Build.BuildId).zip
  artifact: '$(Build.BuildId)'