Starter: CORS Back End Application

This project provides a simple Node.js server demonstrating how to implement Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS). It serves as a foundational example to help developers learn how to configure CORS for handling cross-origin requests in web applications.

Features

• Basic Express.js setup
• Configured CORS middleware to handle requests from different origins
• Development and production mode support
• Easy to extend for adding routes and logic

Prerequisites

To run this project, you'll need:

• Node.js (version 14 or higher recommended)
• npm

Installation and Setup

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/Thinkful-Ed/starter-cors-backend.git

2. Navigate into the project directory:

   cd starter-cors-backend

3. Install the required dependencies:

   npm install

4. Start the application:
   • For a regular run:

     npm start

   • For development mode with auto-restart:

     npm run start:dev

The server will run on the default port 5555, or you can set your preferred port by defining the PORT environment variable.

Example:

PORT=3000 npm start

Project Structure

starter-cors-backend/
├── src/                # Contains the main application files
│   └── app.js          # Main Express application file
├── .gitignore          # Specifies files to ignore in version control
├── package.json        # Project metadata and dependencies
├── package-lock.json   # Version-lock for installed packages
└── README.md           # Project documentation

How to Customize

• You can add new API routes by modifying the src/app.js file.
• To enable CORS for specific domains or HTTP methods, modify the CORS configuration within app.js.

About CORS

CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) is a mechanism that allows web applications to securely make requests to resources on other domains. This is important for applications that communicate with APIs hosted on a different origin from the front-end application. The cors middleware in this project is pre-configured for ease of use.