Could we come up a way to deploy the python frontend/backend only?

[hanwesh]

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[pamelafox]

Have you tried running azd deploy? It will just deploy the app code, not do any of the provisioning steps.

[wherewith]

The solution I've made to view just the frontend is:

• navigate to ./app/start.ps1 and add the line: param ([string] $deploy='build') to line 1 (before anything else)
• scroll to line 57 and replace npm run build with the following code:

if ($deploy -eq "build") {
    Write-Host "Running build environment"
    npm run build
}
elseif ($deploy -eq "dev") {
    Write-Host "Running dev environment"
    npm run dev
}
else {
    Write-Host "Invalid deployment name"
    exit $LASTEXITCODE
}

Now, running start.ps1 normally should be the same, but running 'start.ps1 dev' will use npm run dev instead of npm run build and should update the frontend live. This solution does not work with the backend, however, so asking any questions will result in an error being returned as the answer. azd deploy should work as well for updating the frontend.

[hanwesh]

Have you tried running azd deploy? It will just deploy the app code, not do any of the provisioning steps.

Thanks. Could we specific mention it from the installation section?

[pamelafox]

@hanwesh Good idea, I'll make a PR to update the readme. @wherewith Thanks for sharing. If you find a good setup that enables live reload of the frontend with a functioning backend, please do open a PR.

[pamelafox]

Readme update in https://github.com/Azure-Samples/azure-search-openai-demo/pull/417