API Proxying During Development

When integrating this boilerplate with an existing backend, a common need is to access the backend API when using the dev server. To achieve that, we can run the dev server and the API backend side-by-side (or remotely), and let the dev server proxy all API requests to the actual backend.

To configure the proxy rules, edit dev.proxyTable option in config.js. The dev server is using http-proxy-middleware for proxying, so you should refer to its docs for detailed usage. But here's a simple example:

// config.js
module.exports = {
  // ...
  dev: {
    proxyTable: {
      // proxy all requests starting with /api to jsonplaceholder
      '/api': {
        target: 'http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com',
        changeOrigin: true,
        pathRewrite: {
          '^/api': ''
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

The above example will proxy the request /api/posts/1 to http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1.