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Getting access to the request body to proxy to a development backend

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, node.js
Domain
api, backend

Research direction

Start by reviewing the server's onRequest hook and the http-proxy-middleware example included in the issue. Determine how request data is currently exposed and define completion as enabling a development-backend proxy to forward form data for methods such as POST.

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Description

duplicate

Thanks for the great work on the 11ty ecosystem! I would like to incorporate this plugin and remove @11ty/eleventy-server-browsersync, but I have a use case similar to https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-dev-server/issues/9. Below I show my use case with the browsersync plugin and http-proxy-middleware to proxy the entire request to a development backend. I believe this library could replicate the behavior below if onRequest passed the request or request body so that I could forward the request with the form data for methods such as POST (11ty creates HTML forms that post data)

What are your thoughts on this for your library?

    const apiProxy = createProxyMiddleware({
        pathFilter: opts.intercept,
        target: opts.backend,
        changeOrigin: true,
        logger: console,
        on: {
            proxyReq: function (proxyReq, req) {
                proxyReq.setHeader("Authorization", opts.authorization || "");
                proxyReq.setHeader(
                    "Referer",
                    req.headers.referer?.replace(
                        "http://localhost:8080",
                        `http://${process.env.HOSTNAME}:8080`,
                    ) || "",
                );
            },
        },
    });

    config.setServerOptions({
        module: "@11ty/eleventy-server-browsersync",
        port: 8080,
        open: false,
        notify: false,
        ui: false,
        ghostMode: false,
        snippet: true,
        middleware: [apiProxy],
    });
Dominant language
JavaScript
Stars
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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