Hosting Hugo website using Azure Static Web Apps

It has been almost an year since I finished my last project hosted on Azure so I thought it was time to experiment with it a bit and catch-up on “new” services I haven’t yet tried. One of those services was Azure Static Web Apps. Similar to any other Azure service, this one bundles everything one might need for hosting static web app and a bit more in a single service. This is the pattern we can see in other services within the Azure such as App Services, Function App, etc. They have this tendency to combine multiple things together under one service for easier ClickOps management. If you’re used to AWS or on-premises like I was, it can be odd and off-putting at first, but once you get used to it, I assure you, it is really amazing. ...

January 3, 2024 · 7 min · Ivan Tomica