Default debug launch URL for ASP.NET Core

There was very little documentation that I could find regarding where this start URL was declared. This post on MSDN has a brief mention of this. I eventually came across it in a file launchSettings.json

under the Properties

project node like below:

Here are the contents of this file:

{
  "profiles": {
    "IIS Express": {
      "commandName" : "IISExpress",
      "launchBrowser": true,
      "launchUrl": "api/values",
      "environmentVariables" : {
        "ASPNET_ENV": "Development"
      }
    }
  }
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

You can change launchURL

to your desired default route.