Instructions to deploy/publish with code

[Jose (jtejeroc)]

Dear community,

First of all, congratulations to the development team. It is a very interesting and complete repo.

I am trying to make some changes and build this app in a limited development environment with a restricted network (we need to use proxies in order to download and install python libraries, for example).

I am new to this and I find myself a little bit lost in terms of deploying, publishing and architecture.
As I have no access to Docker or Azure DevOps pipelines in this environment, I would like to have some more information about how it works the deployment/publish mode with code, and I am sure this community can help me cathing up :) .
I have tried the instructions, readme files, etc, ... but I am struggling yet.

Maybe it is easier for you to make some kind of step-by-step walkthrough, but here are a few questions that I have for the moment:

• Can we deploy from a .zip file using directly Azure Portal CLI to avoid the use of VSCode or Azure Extensions?
• What part of the code/folders do we need to include in this .zip?
• Do we need to add a "requirements.txt" inside the "code" folder? Can those be installed during the build if the network has restrictions?
• Do we need to perform any actions first, like npm install or npm build first, so that "code/frontend" folder includes "node_modules" folder?
• Any extra instructions or run commands in the Web App deployment side?

I guess the same questions are valid if instead of a .zip file we use a Git repo like GitHub, Azure Repo, GitLab, etc...

Thank you so much in advance for this.
KR!