How to handle CORS in an electron app

I'm building an electron app and need to call APIs where the API provider has not enabled CORS. The typically proposed solution is to use a reverse proxy which is trivial to do when running locally by using node and cors-anywhere like this:



let port = (process.argv.length > 2) ? parseInt (process.argv[2]) : 8080;
require ('cors-anywhere').createServer ().listen (port, 'localhost');



The app can then be configured to proxy all requests through the reverse proxy on localhost:8080.

So, my questions are:

Is it possible to use node and cors-anywhere in an electron app to create a reverse proxy? I don't want to force the app to make calls to a remote server.

Is there a better or standard way of doing this in an Electron app? I'm assuming I'm not the first to run into CORS issues. :)

1 Answer
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Have you tried using fetch()
Check how to use fetch to make a no-cors request here
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/introduction-to-fetch?hl=en

fetch()

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