Azure Static Web Apps

A useful first task is to deploy a small static page from a starter repository and confirm that its build output is the folder Azure should publish. Microsoft's quickstart walks through creating a GitHub repository, opening it in Visual Studio Code, installing the Static Web Apps extension, signing into Azure and GitHub, and choosing the framework and build locations. GitHub Actions handles the build and deployment. For later changes, a staging environment lets a team review a proposed site without replacing the production version.

The service can also attach API functionality through Azure Functions. That makes it useful for a static frontend that needs a small dynamic endpoint, but it does not turn arbitrary server processes into static assets; choose an application runtime designed for a long-running server if that is what the project requires.

Check the plan limits before launch

The hosting-plan guide distinguishes a Free plan for personal projects from Standard for production workloads. The page lists plan-specific limits for app size, staging environments and custom domains, and says the Free plan has no service-level agreement. Standard adds a service-level agreement and options such as custom authentication registrations. The official pricing page says Standard is billed hourly and presents a monthly estimate; actual pricing varies by currency and purchase agreement, so use the Azure calculator for a project-specific figure. The guide is more useful than assuming the word static means every production requirement is covered.