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How to enable CORS in a React App with Node.js backend?

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To enable CORS in a React App with Node.js backend, we use the cors package.

To install it, we run

npm i cors

Then we use it by writing

const express = require("express");
const request = require("request");
const cors = require("cors");
const app = express();

app.use(cors());

app.use("/", (req, res) => {
  //...
});

app.listen(80, () => {
  console.log("CORS-enabled web server listening on port 80");
});

We add the cors middleware with

app.use(cors());

to enable CORS

By John Au-Yeung

Web developer specializing in React, Vue, and front end development.

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