Deploy a Gatsby site to Azure Static Web Apps

This article demonstrates how to create and deploy a Gatsby web application to Azure Static Web Apps. The final result is a new Static Web Apps site (with the associated GitHub Actions) that give you control over how the app is built and published.

In this tutorial, you learn how to:

• Create a Gatsby app
• Setup an Azure Static Web Apps site
• Deploy the Gatsby app to Azure

If you don't have an Azure subscription, create an Azure free account before you begin.

Prerequisites

• An Azure account with an active subscription. If you don't have one, you can create an account for free.
• A GitHub account. If you don't have one, you can create an account for free.
• A Git setup installed. If you don't have one, you can install Git.
• Node.js installed.

Create a Gatsby App

Create a Gatsby app using the Gatsby Command Line Interface (CLI):

1. Open a terminal

2. Use the npx tool to create a new app with the Gatsby CLI. This may take a few minutes.

   npx gatsby new static-web-app
   

3. Go to the newly created app

   cd static-web-app
   

4. Initialize a Git repo

   git init
   git add -A
   git commit -m "initial commit"
   

Note

If you are using the latest version of Gatsby you may need to modify the package.json to include "engines": { "node": ">=18.0.0" },

Push your application to GitHub

You need to have a repository on GitHub to create a new Azure Static Web Apps resource.

1. Create a blank GitHub repository (don't create a README) from https://github.com/new named gatsby-static-web-app.

2. Next, add the GitHub repository you just created as a remote to your local repo. Make sure to add your GitHub username in place of the <YOUR_USER_NAME> placeholder in the following command.

   git remote add origin https://github.com/<YOUR_USER_NAME>/gatsby-static-web-app
   

3. Push your local repository up to GitHub.

   git push --set-upstream origin main
   

Deploy your web app

The following steps show you how to create a new static site app and deploy it to a production environment.

Create the application

1. Go to the Azure portal

2. Select Create a Resource

3. Search for Static Web Apps

4. Select Static Web Apps

5. Select Create

6. On the Basics tab, enter the following values.

   Property	Value
   Subscription	Your Azure subscription name.
   Resource group	my-gatsby-group
   Name	my-gatsby-app
   Plan type	Free
   Region for Azure Functions API and staging environments	Select a region closest to you.
   Source	GitHub

7. Select Sign in with GitHub and authenticate with GitHub.

8. Enter the following GitHub values.

   Property	Value
   Organization	Select your desired GitHub organization.
   Repository	Select gatsby-static-web-app.
   Branch	Select main.

   Note

   If you don't see any repositories, you may need to authorize Azure Static Web Apps on GitHub. Browse to your GitHub repository and go to Settings > Applications > Authorized OAuth Apps, select Azure Static Web Apps, and then select Grant. For organization repositories, you must be an owner of the organization to grant the permissions.

9. In the Build Details section, select Gatsby from the Build Presets drop-down and keep the default values.

Review and create

1. Select Review + Create to verify the details are all correct.

2. Select Create to start the creation of the App Service Static Web App and provision a GitHub Actions for deployment.

3. Once the deployment completes, select Go to resource.

4. On the resource screen, select the URL link to open your deployed application. You may need to wait a minute or two for the GitHub Actions to complete.

   

Clean up resources

If you're not going to continue to use this application, you can delete the Azure Static Web App resource through the following steps:

1. Open the Azure portal
2. In the top search bar, search for your application by the name you provided earlier
3. Click on the app
4. Click on the Delete button
5. Click Yes to confirm the delete action

Next steps

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