Github Actions deployment for nodejs app to MS Azure takes 25 minutes, even if i only have one typo change - how can I improve this?

[malkyx]

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I have a NodeJS app running on MS Azure as an Azure Web App. I have been using Github Actions to deploy new versions when new code is pushed to a develop/staging branch or the main branch on my Github remote repo.

This works. But it takes about 25 minutes at least to deploy, even if the code change is tiny, eg a single character in one .js file. The app is large and has many dependencies, but usually these are not changing and shouldn't need to be built and deployed each time. The logs suggest more than 10,000 files are being uploaded. Thus the build and deploy steps each take ages and this results in significant downtime for the live app on the Azure server.

Below is my (anonymised) current .yml file - as I say, this actually works, but it takes such a long time. Can anyone suggest a way of deploying just the changed files rather than rebuilding the whole app and deploying everything every time I need to make minor adjustment? Or, to put it another way, can I get Github Actions to publish changes incrementally rather than rebuilding the whole app?

If this isn't possible, can anyone suggest a better way to deploy my NodeJS app to an Azure WebApp slot?

.yml file>>>

`name: Build and deploy Node.js app to Azure Web App

on:
push:
branches:
- develop
workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
build:
runs-on: windows-latest

steps:
  - uses: actions/checkout@v2

  - name: Set up Node.js version
    uses: actions/setup-node@v1
    with:
      node-version: '16.x'

  - name: npm install, build, and test
    run: |
      npm install
      npm run build --if-present
  
  
  # Zip the build directory
  - name: Zip Release
    uses: TheDoctor0/[email protected]
    with:
      filename: release.zip
      path: .

  - name: Upload artifact for deployment job
    uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
    with:
      name: node-app
      path: release.zip

deploy:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
needs: build
environment:
name: 'Staging'
url: ${{ steps.deploy-to-webapp.outputs.webapp-url }}

steps:
  - name: Download artifact from build job
    uses: actions/download-artifact@v2
    with:
      name: node-app

  - name: 'Deploy to Azure Web App'
    uses: azure/webapps-deploy@v2
    id: deploy-to-webapp
    with:
      app-name: 'appname'
      slot-name: 'Staging'
      publish-profile: ${{ secrets.AZUREAPPSERVICE_PUBLISHPROFILE_*** }}
      package: release.zip

`

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[aldo-roman]

Hello. Running into the same issue. Did you find a solution?