Allow CORS in Node.js and Express

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In this quick lesson, we see how to add the CORS middleware so that our Express server can handle requests from different origins.

Philip Cox
Philip Cox
~ 6 years ago

Your JWT implementation completely changed from the last lesson.

Tomi
Tomi
~ 6 years ago

I agree with the above, it'd be better if each lesson built on the implementation from the previous lesson. Two downsides to the way you're doing it; a) the time it takes to go pull each lesson is time I could spend watching the lesson, and b) forces me to speculate what all this new code does?

Yes, I could quickly google e.g. what express-jwt is and I could even guess prior to but why not just use it in the previous lesson to begin with? Just makes things confusing and inconsistent.

tangorri@live.fr
tangorri@live.fr
~ 5 years ago

To enable CORS middleware that's not app.use(bodyParser.json()); but app.use(cors());

Eleonora Lester
Eleonora Lester
~ 5 years ago

Should we always user cors()? Or should we allow specific origins? Is there a good practice for production cases?