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Azure Static Web Apps VS GitHub Pages
Azure Static Web Apps
Azure Static Web Apps is a platform for building, deploying, and managing modern web applications. It offers a range of features for building and deploying serverless applications, including support for a variety of programming languages, automatic scaling, and real-time monitoring
Azure Static Web Apps is designed to be easy to use and require minimal setup, making it a good choice for developers who want to focus on writing code rather than managing infrastructure.
GitHub Pages
GitHub Pages is a static site hosting service that is designed to host your personal, organization, or project pages directly from a GitHub repository. With GitHub Pages, you can create a simple website by committing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files to a repository on GitHub, and GitHub will automatically serve the website from a URL that is based on your GitHub username or the name of your repository.
GitHub Pages is a quick and easy way to create a simple, static website, and it is especially useful for hosting documentation, project pages, and other types of websites that do not require a dynamic back-end. You can also use GitHub Pages to host websites that are generated by static site generators, such as Jekyll, and you can customize the look and feel of your website by creating a custom theme.
Azure Static Web Apps
- limited accessibility in some areas
- A limited level of authentication is offered
- GitHub Actions are used for continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD), which means that a command-line interface is not necessary
- Charges for a custom domain, a free tier, and a greater app size
- connects to further Azure services, including Azure Functions, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Storage, and Azure Event Grid
- appropriate for less-featured, simple web apps
GitHub Pages
- directly host static webpages off of a GitHub repository
- enables the use of custom domains
- free
- integrates version control on GitHub as well as other GitHub capabilities
- Suitable for modest projects without server-side coding or straightforward static web pages
- Since GitHub Pages does not contain a build step, building the site before deployment is required
| FrameWork | Azure Static Web Apps | GitHub Pages |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | Learn more | Learn more |
| Infrastructure | Azure | N/A |
| Continuous deployment | ||
| Automated builds from Git | ||
| Instant rollbacks to any version | ||
| Site previews for every push | ||
| Compatible with all Static Site Generators | Works best with Jekyll | |
| Notifications | ||
| Team Management | ||
| Custom domains | ||
| Automatic HTTPS | ||
| Rewrites & Redirects | ||
| Password Protection | Included in paid plan. | |
| Websites | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Build Minutes | N/A | N/A |
| Concurrent builds | N/A | N/A |
| Bandwidth | 100GB /month | 100GB /month |
| Team Members | Unlimited | N/A |
| Build Time Per Deployment | 15 minutes | N/A |
| Build Memory Limit (in MiB) | N/A | N/A |
| Max team members before switch to custom pricing | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Git contributors have to be Team Members | ||
| Serverless Functions (API) | Node.js, .NET Core, Python and Custom Handlers | |
| Edge Functions | ||
| Background Functions | Durable Functions | |
| CRON Jobs | Timer triggered functions | |
| CLI | swa | |
| Extensions | ||
| Environment Variables | ||
| Build Logs | GitHub Actions logs | N/A |
| Build Canceling | through GitHub Actions | N/A |
| Analytics | ||
| Authentication | Pre-configured providers include: Azure Active Directory, GitHub, Twitter. You can register a custom provider. | |
| Database | ||
| Asset Optimizations | ||
| A/B Testing | ||
| Form Handling | ||
| Data Storage | Git LFS | |
| Push Notifications | ||
| Machine Learning | ||
| Two-factor authentication | ||
| Team Logs | ||
| SOC2 | N/A | |
| ISO27001 | N/A | |
| GDPR | ||
| Carbon Neutral | ||
| Carbon-free Energy | Renewable energy by 2025 | Renewable energy by 2025 |
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The Jamstack ecosystem is rapidly evolving, and with it -- we're witnessing a wider usage of static site generators, which are certainly a big part of the Jamstack technology.
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