Redirect REST requests to other servers, so you can develop your Javascript app without having to launch the backend server on your machine or worry about CORS.

• Install the module with: npm install redirect-rest
• Go to your Javascript app folder
• Create a .redirect-rest.json file (read more)
• Launch the server with redirectrest
• Open http://localhost:4242/ and enjoy your redirects!

To configure the redirections and everything else for redirectrest, create a .redirect-rest.json file on the root folder of your application.

Inside this JSON file you can have this options:

• public_path: Path of the assets that will be published on the HTTP server launched by redirectrest. Defaults to: ./

• html_extensions: Array of file extensions which will be treated as text/html (just in case you are required to have an HTML file with backend extension: PHP, JSP…). Defaults to: ["jsp", "php", "html"]

• redirection_rules: array that contains the redirection rules to redirect to one or many remote servers. Required. Each item in the array is formed by: - path: path used in the request in order to redirect to the remote server. Required. - remote_url: Base URL of the remote server, where the local requests will be redirected. Required. - proxy: Proxy to be used to make remote server requests. Optional.

• port: Local server port

• livereload: Make use of LiveReload to refresh the browser on local changes

• livereloadPort: Port to be used with LiveReload

For example: Imagine you have a JS app and two REST API services on http://example.com/api/ and http://anotherexample.com/api/. Your .redirect-rest.json file would be:

{
  "html_extensions" : ["aspx", "php", "jsp"],
  "public_path" : "./",
  "redirection_rules" : [
               {
                 "path": "/example",
                 "remote_url": "http://example.com/api"
               },
			   {
                 "path": "/anotherExample",
                 "remote_url": "http://anotherExample.com/api"
               }
			   ]
}

This way you'll have your JS app published under http://localhost:4242/, and requests will be redirected as follows:

• http://localhost:4242/example/users redirects to: http://example.com/api/users

• http://localhost:4242/example/roles redirects to: http://example.com/api/roles

• http://localhost:4242/exmaple/whatever redirects to: http://example.com/api/whatever

• http://localhost:4242/anotherexample/clients redirects to: http://anotherexample.com/api/clients

• http://localhost:4242/anoherexample/products redirects to: http://anotherexample.com/api/products

• http://localhost:4242/anotherexample/whatever redirects to: http://anotherexample.com/api/whatever

ASP.NET, PHP and JSP files will be treated as text/html.

• Add port, proxy, livereload and livereloadPort config options (v2.1.0, thanks to @howardh)
• Remove routes. Now all requests are redirected to remote_url (v2.0.0)
• Remove support for redirections to different remote paths (v1.0.0)
• Support querystrings (v0.0.9)
• Redirect local requests to different remote path (v0.0.8)
• Implement error forwarding to local server from remote server (v0.0.7)
• Better logging system (v0.0.5)

The original idea behind redirect-rest was by @drmillan. He was planning on doing something much more simple, and written in some archaic and obscure language such as PHP.

I couldn't allow that \_(ʘ_ʘ)_/

Copyright (c) 2014 Juan G. Hurtado Licensed under the MIT license.