Branch Environment Variables Updater for Microsoft App Center

What?

This tool will allow you to bulk update the Environment Variables for MS App Center branch build configurations. Just paste it into the command line, or set it as a string in an Environment Variable in your own environment where you run the commmand.

Why?

Because I have 50+ environment variables to set on multiple branch build configurations, Microsoft only allow you to set these via a GUI where you have to paste each key and value individually. That is 100s of copy/paste cycles. No thank you.

How?

This uses the official App Center API Service.

Usage

This is just a Node script, so you'll need node installed.

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``
git clone xxx@xxx.xxx/xxx.git
`

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`
yarn install
OR
npm install
`

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`
node ./index.js
`

Unattended / CI Mode

You can fully automate this script by setting the relevant variables in your environment, or adding a .env file in the root. See the .env.example file, rename to .env to try it out.

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The enviroment variables to set, represented as a string. Example:

`
MS_AS_ENV="X=1\nR=2"
`

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Your API key. Must have full write access. To get your API key, in App Center, go to Account Settings -> API Tokens and create one.

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The owner organisation name, as shown in the URL when viewing the app in App Center.

`
/apps/{owner name}/{app name}/branches/{branch name}/config
`

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The app name, as shown in the URL when viewing the app in App Center.

`
/apps/{owner name}/{app name}/branches/{branch name}/config
``

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The name of the branch to update the configuration for. The branch must be appearing in App Center for it to work.

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Whether or not to entirely replace the existing list of variables. If true, all existing ones are deleted first. If false, the variables you provide will be merged.