How to enable CORS on Python Django REST Framework?

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Sometimes, we want to enable CORS on Python Django REST Framework

In this article, we’ll look at how to enable CORS on Python Django REST Framework.

To enable CORS on Python Django REST Framework, we use the django-cors-headers package.

To install it, we run

python -m pip install django-cors-headers

Then we use it by writing

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    #...
    'corsheaders',
    #...
)

in settings.py.

And we add the middleware by writing

MIDDLEWARE = [
    #...,
    'corsheaders.middleware.CorsMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    #...,
]

And we add the domains that we allow CORS from with

CORS_ALLOWED_ORIGINS = [
    'http://localhost:3030',
]

To enable CORS on Python Django REST Framework, we use the django-cors-headers package.

By John Au-Yeung