I am trying to deploy a project to azure, via the "remote git repo" method. But in my repo, the actual node application is a few directories in. Thus, Azure does not do anything when the repo is pushed.
Is there some way to configure the azure website to run from a directory buried in the repo?
This isn't so much an Azure question as a Git question. What you want to know is if there is a way to clone only a sub-directory or branch of a project. From doing some research on this just a couple of weeks ago, the best I could find were solutions for how to do a sparse clone, which does allow one to restrict the files cloned (almost there) but does so within the entire project's directory structure (denied).
A couple of related SO questions & answers which you might find helpful:
Is there any way to clone a git repository's sub-directory only?
(Short answer 'no')
Checkout subdirectories in Git?
(Answer describes the sparse checkout ability).
I would love to see if a git guru might have a better answer based on updates to git, etc.
Good luck with it - I ended up just putting my node app in its own Git project as it seemed the most straightforward approach overall, though not ideal.