No response using express proxy route

Question

I\'ve written a small proxy with nodejs, express and htt-proxy. It works well for serving local files but fails when it comes to proxy to external api:

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Answer 1

Even simpler with pipe and request-Package

var request = require('request');

app.use('/api', function(req, res) {
  var url = apiUrl + req.url;
  req.pipe(request(url)).pipe(res);
});

It pipes the whole request to the API and pipes the response back to the requestor. This also handles POST/PUT/DELETE and all other requests \o/

If you also care about query string you should pipe it as well

req.pipe(request({ qs:req.query, uri: url })).pipe(res);