Get Azure App Settings as object using Node?

Question

Is it possible to treat app settings in Azure as an object using Node/Express similar to ASP.NET Core?

For example, if my app settings are:

container:value1 = "Hello",
container:value2 = "World"

I'd like to get an object for "container" that gives me:

{
     value1: "Hello",
     value2: "World"
}

I've tried container:value1 and container__value1 like ASP.NET Core, but without luck.

have you looked at ./config/config.js in the root of your app directory? — zoecarver
– zoecarver, Commented Feb 21, 2017 at 17:08

Aaron Chen · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-22 07:19:46Z

5

Per Azure's documentation,

App settings

This section contains name/value pairs that your web app will load on start up.

For .NET apps, these settings are injected into your .NET configuration AppSettings at runtime, overriding existing settings.

PHP, Python, Java and Node applications can access these settings as environment variables at runtime. For each app setting, two environment variables are created; one with the name specified by the app setting entry, and another with a prefix of APPSETTING_. Both contain the same value.

So in Node.js, you can use the following line of code to get Azure App Settings.

process.env['container:value1']

edited Feb 22, 2017 at 7:19

answered Feb 22, 2017 at 7:05

Aaron Chen

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Brian Vallelunga Over a year ago

This works fine and I'll mark it as the answer. But basically it doesn't seem like there's any way to automatically map Azure app settings to a hierarchical object in Node like I can with ASP.NET Core.

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