Clarification on SSO Add-in Templates and Azure Deployment

[LukasSchauffele]

I am hoping this is the correct repo to post this in.

I am looking at developing my first office add-in pulling data using Microsoft Graph. As far as I can tell there are two articles to help me get started:

Create a Node.js Office Add-in that uses single sign-on and Single sign-on (SSO) quick start.

The code from the Office-Add-in-samples repo is different from the code produced by yo office.

The instructions on the quick start page seem to indicate that it's only suitable for local development/testing only.

However, I haven't been able to find any instructions on how to deploy the other sample to Azure. In fact, I've only found @davidchesnut Deploy Office Add-in that uses SSO to Azure App Service video showing how to deploy an SSO add-in using the yo office generator.

Which template should we be using when developing an SSO add-in for production purposes? If the answer is to use the sample add-in, are there any instructions on how to deploy to Azure? Finally, why are there two starter templates, and are there any plans to converge these two?

Thanks for your help.
Lukas

[Rick-Kirkham]

@davidchesnut Can you give any guidance?

[davidchesnut]

Hi @LukasSchauffele,

Yes we document how to publish add-ins built with the SSO template here: Deploy a single sign-on (SSO) Office Add-in to Microsoft Azure App Service.

These steps should work with the SSO sample as well, but there's probably a few things that are slightly different. We are doing some doc/sample planning to update the SSO articles, and I agree the coding patterns should all be the same template if possible. We'll work to get these updated.

Thanks!
David