Proxy requests to a separate backend server with vue-cli

Question

I am using vue-cli webpack-simple template to generate my projects, and I\'d like to proxy requests to a separate, backend server. How can this be easi

Answer 1

If you use webpack template with vue-cli, then you can find the required information in this reference document:

http://vuejs-templates.github.io/webpack/proxy.html

Or instead of changing your template now, you may copy the relevant config from the webpack template into your local webpack-simple template.

EDIT: more info from my local setup

This is what I have in my config/index.js under module.exports:

dev: {
    env: require('./dev.env'),
    port: 4200,
    assetsSubDirectory: 'static',
    assetsPublicPath: '/',
    proxyTable: {
        '/api': {
            target: 'http://localhost:8080',
            changeOrigin: true
        },
        '/images': {
            target: 'http://localhost:8080',
            changeOrigin: true
        },
        // and so on...

The above config runs my vue-cli on port 4200, and I run my server on port 8080.

EDIT: Corrected info about CORS after comment #4 and #5

Note:

• The changeOrigin option in dev.proxyTable (in webpack config) ensures that you do not need to serve CORS headers on your server API responses.
• If you decide to omit changeOrigin for any reason, then you need to ensure that your server API includes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * (or equivalent) in its response headers.

References:

1. https://stackoverflow.com/a/36662307/654825
2. https://github.com/chimurai/http-proxy-middleware