I'm running an Angular Universal application that is talking to an API. Now I'm trying to set up a proxy in the Universal server that proxies API requests to the actual API server:
server.use(['/api', '/sitemap.txt'], createProxyMiddleware({
target: process.env.API_URL,
onProxyReq: req => {
console.log('Using origin: ' + getOrigin(req.getHeaders()));
req.setHeader('origin', getOrigin(req.getHeaders()));
},
pathRewrite: {'^/api': ''}
}));
This works perfectly when running locally, but when running it on the server (Azure WebApp), it doesn't work. I can see the console log being called in the WebApp logs, but the resulting document is the Angular application with a message "page not found".
I'm totally out of ideas on where to look for solutions.
Edit:
I tried another proxy middleware and it does do the trick. This code works both locally and on Azure.
import * as proxy from 'express-http-proxy';
// ...
server.use(['/api', '/sitemap.txt'], proxy(process.env.API_URL, {
proxyPathResolver: req => {
let url: string = req.url;
if (url.startsWith('/api')) {
url = url.substr(4);
}
return url;
},
proxyReqOptDecorator(proxyReqOpts, srcReq) {
proxyReqOpts.headers['origin'] = getOrigin(proxyReqOpts.headers);
return proxyReqOpts;
}
}));
But it has some other limitations that make it unusable for our project, so I still need this resolved.