Azure Storage Queue Trigger Azure Functions to develop locally using NodeJS

Azure provides serverless service by the name of Azure Functions.
It enables one to adopt the event-driven architecture, Azure Functions are serverless execution models and provide complete abstraction from underlying architecture.

In this article, I will elaborate on how to develop the Queue Trigger Azure function locally using NodeJS and IDE as Visual Code.

Queue Trigger: Trigger Whenever a new message comes in Azure Storage Queue. Queue is sequence of message that are maintained in sequence First Come First Basis. You can use Queue trigger if you need to perform some operations over message.

Queue Trigger

Prerequisites for this article

• Valid Azure Account including Azure Queue Storage Access
• NodeJS 10.14.1+
• Visual Studio Code
• Azure Functions Core Tools NPM Package can be downloaded from https://www.npmjs.com/package/azure-functions-core-tools

If you have all this, we are good to go.

Here is how its works