Redirect Angular2 http requests through proxy

Question

I\'m creating Angular2 application using angular-cli bootstrapper and use webpack-dev-server for debugging purposes.

For some kinds of http request I wa

Answer 1

I found solution. I've created simple express server to log all requests transferred from proxy server to inspect how mapping works. And I found out that I had wrong understanding about mapping.

Instead of strict mapping defined in config file:

/api/users => http://localhost:4201/users

webpack proxy server map using next rule:

/api/users => http://localhost:4201/users/api/users

So solution here is to add pathRewrite parameter to exclude prefix

{
  "/api/users": {
    "target": "http://localhost:4201",
    "secure": false,
    "pathRewrite": {"^/api" : ""}
  }
}