Configure Azure to run nodejs app in development environment

Question

NodeJS applications on Azure portal are running by default in production environment (process.env.NODE_ENV is production).

Is it possible to change the environment to development? And how?

(If it matters, I configured the application as a Web Site on Azure.)

Are you asking how to set an environment variable on Windows? — Anko
– Anko, Commented Jul 17, 2014 at 13:40
No. I'm asking how to configure azure to run the development environment? — Razvan
– Razvan, Commented Jul 17, 2014 at 14:03

sabbour · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-20 13:49:10Z

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You can set the NODE_ENV variable under the Website App settings configuration on the portal: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-configure/#howtochangeconfig

Additionally, if you are using the Azure CLI (which you can install via npm install azure-cli -g), you can run the following azure site config add NODE_ENV=development assuming your CLI is configured.

This will ask you for the website name then set the config.

edited Jul 20, 2014 at 13:49

answered Jul 20, 2014 at 13:37

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Jon Over a year ago

doesn't the app settings in azure add the prefix to it and break how NODE would pick up that setting?

mwilson Over a year ago

I saw this when I first started this adventure. I just chuckled to myself and said, yea, I bet that works great for a dotnet app. No way in hell that's ever going to work with node since it's Microsoft. A couple weeks later after trying multiple different setups I came back to this. It works like a charm. I just put in an app setting and referenced it in my node app (process.env.*) and it worked like a champ. I hate to do it, but one gold star for microsft. I definitely thought they were just running node in some bastardized fashion with no access to anything you would actually need.

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