How to use webpack devServer proxy in create react app

Question

I'm creating a new app by using create-react-app and I want to add some proxies for my code. Previously I have used webpacks devServer

module.exports = {
  ...
  devServer: {
    proxy: {
      '/api/context*': {
        target: 'http://some.endpoint.com',
        headers: myCustomerHeaders,
        pathRewrite: (path, res) => changeThePath
      }
    }
  }
  ...
}

I have tried using the same approach in both webpack.config.dev.js and the webpackDevServer.config.js as well as putting it start.js as proxyConfig that is being passed to the webpackDevServer.config.js.

I see writings of src/setupProxy.js but is it applicable without expressJs running somewhere? Anyway I tried it without any result. The paths I'm proxying to are test environment api's that I wish to use.

I have used create-react-app as a new skeleton for an old application to upgrade it, my old project works with the proxy settings.

Now that I'm using create-react-app, I expected the same way be plausible, but it seems I am wrong. Any takers of what I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

You can use "http-proxy-middleware"

https://github.com/chimurai/http-proxy-middleware

var express = require('express')
var proxy = require('http-proxy-middleware')

var app = express()

app.use('/api', proxy({ target: 'http://www.example.org', changeOrigin: true }))
app.listen(3000)