How Azure Web Apps Hosts an ASP.NET 5 Application

I want to write this quick post because figuring out how an ASP.NET 5 application is hosted under Azure Web Apps was a big question for me. Some information is already there on this topic but the concept wasn’t crystal clear because when you look at the packed version of an ASP.NET 5 web application, it has the following structure on disk:

It will even get more interesting when you look inside the wwwroot folder:

We have the static files, bin folder which only contains AspNet.Loader.dll ins...