How to host the client in the same server with backend.

[pisacode]

I have deploy both https://github.com/cheatcode/nodejs-server-boilerplate and https://github.com/cheatcode/nextjs-boilerplate on different servers but I am having problems with the authentication flow. The login method requires setting a cookie for authentication token but when server and client on cross domain, it is not able to set the cookie. Therefore I have put the client files under backend/client and redirected all traffic except api/graphql to client/build/index.html with the following code.

app.use(express.static('client/build'));

app.get('/api/graphql', (req, res) => {
  //What to do here to direct traffic to graphql server
});

app.get('*', (req, res) => {
  res.sendFile(path.join(__dirname + 'client/build/index.html'));
});

But I couldn't find a way to direct api/graphql to the graphql server.

is there a better approach?

[rglover]

Hi @pisacode, you should be able to update the list of allowed domains in your settings-production.json file under the URLs block (see an example here: https://github.com/cheatcode/nodejs-server-boilerplate/blob/master/settings-development.json#L20), or, by modifying the CORS middleware directly in /middleware/cors.js here: https://github.com/cheatcode/nodejs-server-boilerplate/blob/master/middleware/cors.js#L4.

Once the URL is added, the CORS policy should kick in and allow you to do cross-domain requests.