Modified Github/Azure Node app Yaml

main_mern-webapp.yml

# Docs for the Azure Web Apps Deploy action: https://github.com/Azure/webapps-deploy
# More GitHub Actions for Azure: https://github.com/Azure/actions

name: Build and deploy Node.js app to Azure Web App - mern-webapp

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
  workflow_dispatch:

env:
  AZURE_WEBAPP_NAME: mern-webapp    # set this to your application's name
  AZURE_WEBAPP_PACKAGE_PATH: '.'      # set this to the path to your web app project, defaults to the repository root
  NODE_VERSION: '14.x'

jobs:
  build-and-deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2

    - name: Set up Node.js version ${{ env.NODE_VERSION }}
      uses: actions/setup-node@v1
      with:
        node-version: ${{ env.NODE_VERSION }}

    - name: npm install, build
      run: |
        npm install
        npm run build
        #npm install nodemon

    - name: 'Deploy to Azure Web App'
      uses: azure/webapps-deploy@v2
      id: deploy-to-webapp
      with:
        app-name: ${{ env.AZURE_WEBAPP_NAME }}
        slot-name: 'Production'
        publish-profile: ${{ secrets.AZUREAPPSERVICE_PUBLISHPROFILE_D14EDB11DE9149A8826F2ADD8F1C22BC }}
        package: ${{ env.AZURE_WEBAPP_PACKAGE_PATH }}