Could not proxy request /pusher/auth from localhost:3000 to http://localhost:5000 (ECONNREFUSED)

Question

I am trying to create a chat app using reactJS and pusher, i am getting this error-

Could not proxy request /pusher/auth from localhost:3000 to http

Answer 1

I faced a similar issue but in Mac machine. I changed localhost to 127.0.0.1 and that worked for me.

For windows:

"proxy": {
  "/auth/google": {
    "target": "localhost:5000"
  }
}

For Mac:

"proxy": {
  "/auth/google": {
    "target": "http://127.0.0.1:5000"
  }
}

Answer 2

My issue was trying to run my react project with docker containers open.

Change the ports or shut down the containers.

Answer 3

In your server package.json add --ignore client to your "start" or "server" scripts. So it would look like this:

 "scripts": {
 "start": "node index.js",
 "server": "nodemon index.js --ignore client"
 }

Answer 4

I think Server not working properly, you should run client and server concurrently for that add following procedures in package.json file

1) Install concurrently

npm install concurrently --save

2) configure client and server

"server": "nodemon server.js",
"client": "npm start --prefix client"

3) configure concurrently

"dev": "concurrently "npm run server" "npm run client""

Answer 5

Use "proxy":"http://localhost:PORT_NUMBER/" in package.json

and in axios backend call route like use axios.get("api/user/getinfo") instead of axios.get("/api/user/getinfo");

Answer 6

In server directory

npm install --save http-proxy-middleware

then create a file with this name : setupProxy.js in src directory of client react folder

then add the following

const proxy = require("http-proxy-middleware");
module.exports = function(app) {
  app.use(proxy("/api/**", { // https://github.com/chimurai/http-proxy-middleware
    target: "http://localhost:5000",
    secure: false
  }));
};

In proxy configuration make sure you are matching any path with double ** not only *

Note: you are not going to require this proxy anywhere else just like that

Note: remove any other proxy settings in package.json For more check this reference