Microsoft Visual Studio is not the only available IDE that allows you to work with Azure App Services. Because this Azure service supports different technology stacks, including .NET, JS, PHP, Java, and so on, you can easily leverage its capabilities to host different websites using different runtimes. For instance, let's assume that we have the following PHP code that displays a Hello World message:
<?phpecho('Hello world from Azure App Service - PHP here!');?>
Such a simple PHP application can be easily created in any available IDE that supports the PHP language. For the purpose of this exercise, I chose Visual Studio Code, an open source editor, as it can easily be extended using many ...
