Proxy with express.js

Question

To avoid same-domain AJAX issues, I want my node.js web server to forward all requests from URL /api/BLABLA to another server, for example other_domain.co

Answer 1

request has been deprecated as of February 2020, I'll leave the answer below for historical reasons, but please consider moving to an alternative listed in this issue.

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I did something similar but I used request instead:

var request = require('request');
app.get('/', function(req,res) {
  //modify the url in any way you want
  var newurl = 'http://google.com/';
  request(newurl).pipe(res);
});

I hope this helps, took me a while to realize that I could do this :)