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

That's what I've been using for a while. Can handle both JSON and binary requests.

app.use('/api', (req, res, next) => {
    const redirectUrl = config.api_server + req.url.slice(1);
    const redirectedRequest = request({
        url: redirectUrl,
        method: req.method,
        body: req.readable ? undefined : req.body,
        json: req.readable ? false : true,
        qs: req.query,
        // Pass redirect back to the browser
        followRedirect: false
    });
    if (req.readable) {
        // Handles all the streamable data (e.g. image uploads)
        req.pipe(redirectedRequest).pipe(res);
    } else {
        // Handles everything else
        redirectedRequest.pipe(res);
    }
});