I have been developing Logic Apps Standard for a long time and, as far as I remember, never had an issue running them locally until a few months ago. I didn’t pay too much attention because I wasn’t running them locally, and I didn’t block my ability to develop my solutions or workflows.
However, this week, while developing my demos for the Azure Logic Apps Community Day 2023 event, I had the need to test them locally, and every time I tried to run them locally by either:
- Start Debugging
- Or Run Without Debugging
I was getting the following error:
Failed to find “func host start” task.
📝 One-Minute Brief
Running Logic Apps Standard locally can fail with the error “Failed to find func host start task”. This article explains why this error occurs and how to fix it by validating prerequisites, tooling versions, and local environment configuration for Logic Apps Standard development.
Cause
To be honest, I don’t know because I had all the pre-requirements installed, but I guess, and this is just me guessing, that some Azure Function extension update broke some configuration between these to extensions.
Solution
I know that you probably will not like it… But after spending a few hours, I gave up and went to a drastic approach – this one – that solved the problem.
To solve this issue, you need to:
- Uninstall all Azure Functions extension dependencies.
- In my case, the Azure Logic Apps – Data Mapper and Azure Logic Apps (Standard) extensions.
- Uninstall the Azure Functions extension.
- Restart Visual Studio Code.
- Install all the extensions again, in my case:
- Azure Function.
- Azure Logic Apps (Standard).
- Azure Logic Apps – Data Mapper.
- Just to be safe, restart Visual Studio Code.
After that, I was able to run my workflow locally without any issues.
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