Webpack’s devserver is a very helpful tool. It helps a lot by setting web server for application during development.
Usually, you need to communicate with your API (backend) from the client-side via some URL. To avoid cross-site scripting and CORS configuration on your backend or web server(I hope, it’s Nginx:)), you can use a built-in proxy server in the webpack devserver.
You use it you need just to update webpack config or vue.conf.js if you use
vue-cli with such options:
devServer: {
proxy: {
'/api': 'http://localhost:5000'
}
}
It will redirect all requests from /api to 'http://localhost:5000.
devserver-proxy could do some simple URL rewrite, ignore SSL certificate validation (it’s a useful feature for development and self-signed certificates), etc.
It’s really easy to configure. And, of course, this solution is simpler than to have Nginx to proxy your requests to back-end in the development environment.