Manual Proxy setup in React project

proxy-setup.md

Manual Proxy setup in create-react-app

cd client
npm install http-proxy-middleware
cd src && touch setupProxy.js

setupProxy.js

const { createProxyMiddleware } = require('http-proxy-middleware');

module.exports = function(app) {
  app.use(
    '/api',
    createProxyMiddleware({
      target: 'http://localhost:3001',
      changeOrigin: true,
      pathRewrite: {
          '^/api':'/'
      }
    })
  );
};

So now everyrequest to http://localhost:3000/api goes to http://localhost:3001