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Using Azure Functions Core Tools to fetch app settings for local development

Update: If you prefer watching videos to reading, I made a video on my YouTube channel that covers this content Before deploying our Azure Functions, it’s good to debug our Functions locally to ensure that it works as expected. Running our Functions locally requires a local.settings.json file to store our application settings. When we first create a Function in Visual Studio, a local.settings.json file is generated for us. However, if we clone a Function app from a repository, this file won’t be cloned! (Hopefully it won’t be cloned. It’s good practice not to commit this file to your repo since it has application secrets!). ...

February 13, 2022 · 4 min · Will Velida