Improve workflow performance of GitHub Actions for Node.js App Service

[horihiro]

Code of Conduct

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What article on docs.github.com is affected?

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/deployment/deploying-to-your-cloud-provider/deploying-to-azure/deploying-nodejs-to-azure-app-service

What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?

The configuration has a possibility which makes GitHub Actions slower because the workflow uploads many files as an artifact which are installed by npm install.

So let me suggest the following to improve the GitHub Actions performance:

1. Add npm prune --production command after npm run test --if-present to remove files installed as devDependencies modules and which are unnecessary for production environment
2. Add zip command step (like zip release.zip ./* -qr) to archive deployment files before upload artifact step, and change upload artifact step in build job and Deploy to Azure Web App step in deploy job to use the zip file

The workflow applied the above improving points to is:
https://github.com/horihiro/20220504-githubactions-test/blob/main/.github/workflows/main_app-githubactions-test.yml

Additional information

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[cmwilson21]

@horihiro Thanks so much for opening an issue! I'll triage this for the team to take a look 👀