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have you instantiated the config?

e.g.

`const x = new pulumi.Config();`

Hi,Paul. Yes we use

```const config = new pulumi.Config(“pulumi”)```

Drop the Pulumi part and try it - I don’t believe you need that

if Indo a console.log it returns the correct value so it reads the config directly

I think you should use ?? for numbers  and bools, not || to provide default values

Yes - you are right about the gotcha here (if you see any Pulumi example code that has a bug due to this let us know). 

The `??` operator was just added to TypeScript 2 months ago, and is not widely known syntax yet - which is the primary reason it’s not used in examples yet. It is indeed closer to the desired semantics for this use case. 