Building an Angular app usually results in a bunch of files, mainly consisting of Javascript files, CSS files, and an index.html.

An Azure App Service normally wants to host an application using a startup command for a specific stack (PHP, Node, Python, etc.).

Technically, you could run your Angular app as a Node app. In that case you would run npm run start or ng serve as the startup command.

But when you have a static build generated using ng build, you cannot do that. Instead, you want to serve the folder with the files from the build.

This is possible in Azure App Service, although it was a little hard to find (thanks Lutti Coelho on Stackoverflow ). Simply select Node as your stack and then use the following PM2 startup command:

pm2 serve /home/site/wwwroot --no-daemon --spa

This will make PM2 serve your wwwroot folder. As a reference, my configuration looks as follows:

Azure App Service Stack settings

• angular
• app-service
• azure
• pm2
• static