title: Connecting to Azure Web App / SQL Database from external Node process
body: <p>I have an Azure Web App running, which has custom Easy APIs defined and a few Easy Tables. I have been using this Azure Web App and the SQL tables connected to it to run a few javascript-based LOB Windows Store apps the past year and it has worked really well.</p>
  
  <p>But now I need to access these resources for a Node.js process I'll be running locally. I'd like to access it in pretty much the same way I access it in my Windows Store app:</p>
  
  <pre><code>var client = new window.WindowsAzure.MobileServiceClient(
        "https://my-mobileservice.azure-mobile.net/",
        "MOBILESERVICEKEY"
  );
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If I can't access the Web App using the same API as provided above from within Node, it will suffice if I can just read and write rows to the SQL tables manually.</p>
  
  <p>So how can I do this?</p>