Implement pre-publish action for Static Websites

[gabrielvdk]

Would be great if you can do some pre-processing before the files go to Azure.

Eg.

• Configure some settings based on target storage account
• Increase a build number / date-time
• etc.

[StephenWeatherford]

@fiveisprime Do we do something like this for publishing in any of the other extensions?

[fiveisprime]

We don't; however it makes sense to be able to configure some kind of pre-publish build for SPAs. Maybe we could hook into VS Code's build system to trigger the command that you could customie how you see fit?

[ejizba]

In Functions, we run dotnet publish before deploying a C# project. VS Code has a tasks api that you can leverage to list and execute tasks from an extension. See here for more info: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-azurefunctions/blob/master/src/commands/deploy.ts#L201

I'm not sure what the user experience would be in the storage extension, but I'm guessing you could leverage the same tasks api

[StephenWeatherford]

I like that idea. prepublishStaticWebsite?