Add 'Using CORS in Express'

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Mehran Dehghanian 4 years ago
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### Using CORS in Express
Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) allows AJAX requests to skip the Same-origin policy and access resources from remote hosts.
In this post I will show you how to enable CORS support in Express. I will also provide some tips to handle common use cases that come up when working with Single Page Applications, like exposing HTTP sessions and custom headers.
### Enabling CORS
The easiest way to get CORS working in Express is by using the cors npm module.
You can simply add it as a dependency:
```
npm install --save cors
And then use it as middleware:
var express = require('express');
var cors = require('cors');
var app = express();
app.use(cors());
/* your regular routes go here */
```
Thats it. CORS is now enabled.
If you make a request to your app, you will notice a new header being returned:
`Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *`
The Access-Control-Allow-Origin header determines which origins are allowed to access server resources over CORS (the * wildcard allows access from any origin).
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