diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f5249bb70b..fb5e701d1c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -193,6 +193,8 @@ src/Umbraco.Web.UI/Umbraco/telemetrics-id.umb
 /src/Umbraco.Web.UI.NetCore/[Uu]mbraco/[Ll]ogs
 /src/Umbraco.Web.UI.NetCore/[Uu]mbraco/[Dd]ata/*
 /src/Umbraco.Web.UI.NetCore/[Uu]mbraco/[Mm]odels/*
+/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.NetCore/appsettings.json
+/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.NetCore/appsettings.Development.json
 
 
 src/Umbraco.Tests.Integration/umbraco/Data/
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.NetCore/Umbraco.Web.UI.NetCore.csproj b/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.NetCore/Umbraco.Web.UI.NetCore.csproj
index b14848bae5..7979338f47 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.NetCore/Umbraco.Web.UI.NetCore.csproj
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.NetCore/Umbraco.Web.UI.NetCore.csproj
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@
   <PropertyGroup>
     <BellePath>$(ProjectDir)wwwroot/umbraco</BellePath>
     <JsonSchemaPath>$(ProjectDir)umbraco/config/appsettings-schema.json</JsonSchemaPath>
+
   </PropertyGroup>
   <Target Name="CheckPreconditions" BeforeTargets="Build">
     <Message Text="-CheckPreconditions-" Importance="high" />
@@ -100,6 +101,11 @@
     <Message Text="Generate the appsettings json schema." Importance="High" Condition="!Exists('$(JsonSchemaPath)') and '$(UmbracoBuild)' == ''" />
 
     <CallTarget Targets="JsonSchemaBuild" Condition="!Exists('$(JsonSchemaPath)') and '$(UmbracoBuild)' == ''" />
+    
+   
+    <CallTarget Targets="AppsettingsBuild" Condition="!Exists('appsettings.json')" />
+    <CallTarget Targets="AppsettingsDevBuild" Condition="!Exists('appsettings.Development.json')" />
+
   </Target>
   <Target Name="BelleBuild">
 <!--    <Exec WorkingDirectory="$(ProjectDir)/../../src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/" Command="powershell -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Command '&amp;{ npm install ; npm run build }'" />-->
@@ -107,6 +113,15 @@
   <Target Name="JsonSchemaBuild">
 <!--    <Exec WorkingDirectory="$(ProjectDir)/../../" Command="powershell -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Command '&amp;dotnet run &#45;&#45;project $pwd/src/JsonSchema/JsonSchema.csproj -c Release &#45;&#45; &#45;&#45;outputFile $pwd/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.NetCore/$(JsonSchemaPath)'" />-->
   </Target>
+  <Target Name="AppsettingsBuild">
+     <Message Text="Generating appsettings.json because it doesnt exist" Importance="High" />
+     <Copy SourceFiles="$(Projectdir)/appsettings.template.json" DestinationFiles="$(ProjectDir)/appsettings.json" />
+  </Target>
+  <Target Name="AppsettingsDevBuild">
+    <Message Text="Generating appsettings.Development.json because it doesnt exist" Importance="High" />
+    <Copy SourceFiles="$(ProjectDir)appsettings.Development.template.json" DestinationFiles="$(ProjectDir)appsettings.Development.json" />
+  </Target>
+
 
   <!-- clean Belle when cleaning and rebuilding, but only in Visual Studio -->
   <Target Name="CleanPreconditions" AfterTargets="Clean" Condition="'$(UmbracoBuild)' == ''">
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.NetCore/appsettings.Development.json b/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.NetCore/appsettings.Development.template.json
similarity index 100%
rename from src/Umbraco.Web.UI.NetCore/appsettings.Development.json
rename to src/Umbraco.Web.UI.NetCore/appsettings.Development.template.json
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.NetCore/appsettings.json b/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.NetCore/appsettings.template.json
similarity index 100%
rename from src/Umbraco.Web.UI.NetCore/appsettings.json
rename to src/Umbraco.Web.UI.NetCore/appsettings.template.json