Spring data rest disable CORS on base-path

Question

I'm developing a REACT app on localhost:3000 and have a spring data rest backend running on localhost:8080. I've found out how to disable CORS policy for specific RestRepositories for example:

@CrossOrigin("*")
public interface EmployeeRepository extends PagingAndSortingRepository<Employee, Long> {
}

Now the following URL is accessible: localhost:8080/api/employees

However, I'm trying to execute a GET-request on the base-path url itself: localhost:8080/api. This is still blocked by CORS policy. I want to disable the CORS policy on that URL.

I've found the following documentation: https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/rest/docs/current/reference/html/#customizing-sdr.configuring-cors this works for the repositories itself but has no result on the base URL.

Any ideas are much appreciated.

Answer 1

if you created the react app using create-react-app please add the following to the package.json:

"proxy":"http://localhost:8080",

This will proxy all your requests to the backend server. This is for development only.