Built a Lightweight GitHub Action for Deploying to Azure Static Web Apps

TL;DR I created shibayan/swa-deploy — a lightweight GitHub Action that only deploys to Azure Static Web Apps, without the Docker-based build overhead of the official action. It wraps the same StaticSitesClient that SWA CLI uses internally, includes automatic caching, and supports both Deployment Token and azure/login authentication. The Problem with the Official Action When deploying static sites (built with Astro, Vite, etc.) to Azure Static Web Apps, the standard approach is to use the official Azure/static-web-apps-deploy action that gets auto-generated when you link a GitHub repo to your SWA resource. Unlike other Azure deployment actions (e.g., for App Service or Azure Functions), this action uses Oryx — the build engine used across Azure App Service — to build your application internally. It runs inside Docker, which means: The build process is a black box with hidden behaviors Docker image creation adds significant overhead Customizing the build pipeline is limited While Oryx is