CORS issue on localhost while calling REST service from angularjs

Question

I am learning angularJS and trying to implement it in my application.

I have an RESTful WCF service hosted on localhost IIS. It has a GET method defined to fetch a l

Answer 1

I struggled for way too long with CORS issues caused by the interaction of an emulated Ionic project (running locally) with some small Node.JS web services (also running locally).

Behold the short easy workaround : Chrome's plugin AllowControlAllowOrigin.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/cross%20origin?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon&_category=extensions

Just switch the radio button from red to green, and no more blocked request, error or warning ! Of course it's a temporary solution and you may have to put your hands in your request headers when the time to stop the local tests will come. In the meantime, that's a great way to avoid loosing time on those anoying recurrent issues.