When you’re working with building applications or services there’s always a need to store configuration. For Azure there’s a great service called Azure App Configuration that allows you to securely store, manage and retrieve configuration settings. It’s a perfect service for both smaller and larger projects and it keeps your configuration in control, and of course secured and audited.
When I’m building solutions using node I typically start with storing my configuration in a local .env file and then use the dotenv package to import those settings into process.env properties. That makes it super easy to work with configurations, settings and change them as needed without fiddling through all the code and replace. Since I always add the .env file to my .gitignore I also reduce the risk of sharing secrets and passwords. When moving this from my local dev machine into Azure I have historically just used the Web App application settings. That works really great and is a simple solution to have these settings being read runtime, the web app only needs to be restarted to pick the new changes up.
