Web.config for hosting an Angular application on Azure Web App

If you host an Angular application on Microsoft Azure you probably want to define a mimemap for .json and .woff / .woff2 files to get rid of the console errors. Also in order to enable client side routing we have to add a rewrite rule.

This is how my web.config looks like:

<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <staticContent>
            <mimeMap fileExtension=".json" mimeType="application/json" />
            <remove fileExtension=".woff"/>
            <mimeMap fileExtension=".woff" mimeType="application/font-woff" />
            <mimeMap fileExtension=".woff2" mimeType="font/woff2" />
     </staticContent>

      <rewrite>
        <rules>
            <rule name="Angular" stopProcessing="true">
                <match url=".*" />
                <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
                    <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
                    <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
                </conditions>
                <action type="Rewrite" url="/" />
            </rule>
        </rules>
        </rewrite>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

To ensure the config gets deployed, put it in the src directory:

And add it to list of assets within the .angular-cli.json: