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

With Azure Function Core Tools, we can retrieve settings from our Functions to simplify our local development and debugging efforts!

Will Velida
Towards Data Science
4 min readAug 9, 2021

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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.

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