How to access Azure storage emulator using Node.js SDK

Today I have a quick tip that I want to share with you because it took me some time to figure this out.

I'm using Azure SDK for Node.js to interact with Azure Storage and I want to access my development environment with it.

To access the blob storage, for instance, you just need to create a blob service using the resource name and the access key. Too easy!

    var azure = require('azure-storage');
    var blobService = azure.createBlobService('mystorage', 'my-access-key');

Now I want to access the Azure Storage Emulator running in my machine. How to do it? Just replace the previous code with the following piece of code.

    var azure = require('azure-storage');
    var devStoreCreds = azure.generateDevelopmentStorageCredendentials();
    var blobService = azure.createBlobService(devStoreCreds);

Hope this helps.