✨ Writes a CORS proxy, to secure widget requests

server.js

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ const saveConfig = require('./services/save-config'); // Saves users new conf.ym
 const rebuild = require('./services/rebuild-app'); // A script to programmatically trigger a build
 const systemInfo = require('./services/system-info'); // Basic system info, for resource widget
 const sslServer = require('./services/ssl-server'); // TLS-enabled web server
+const corsProxy = require('./services/cors-proxy'); // Enables API requests to CORS-blocked services
 
 /* Helper functions, and default config */
 const printMessage = require('./services/print-message'); // Function to print welcome msg on start
@@ -102,6 +103,14 @@ const app = express()
     } catch (e) {
       res.end(JSON.stringify({ success: false, message: e }));
     }
+  })
+  // GET for accessing non-CORS API services
+  .use(ENDPOINTS.corsProxy, (req, res) => {
+    try {
+      corsProxy(req, res);
+    } catch (e) {
+      res.end(JSON.stringify({ success: false, message: e }));
+    }
   });
 
 /* Create HTTP server from app on port, and print welcome message */

services/cors-proxy.js

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+/**
+ * A simple CORS proxy, for accessing API services which aren't CORS-enabled.
+ * Receives requests from frontend, applies correct access control headers,
+ * makes request to endpoint, then responds to the frontend with the response
+ */
+
+const axios = require('axios');
+
+module.exports = (req, res) => {
+  // Apply allow-all response headers
+  res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*');
+  res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'GET, PUT, PATCH, POST, DELETE');
+  if (req.header('access-control-request-headers')) {
+    res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', req.header('access-control-request-headers'));
+  }
+
+  // Pre-flight
+  if (req.method === 'OPTIONS') {
+    res.send();
+    return;
+  }
+
+  // Get desired URL, from Target-URL header
+  const targetURL = req.header('Target-URL');
+  if (!targetURL) {
+    res.send(500, { error: 'There is no Target-Endpoint header in the request' });
+    return;
+  }
+  // Apply any custom headers, if needed
+  const headers = req.header('CustomHeaders') ? JSON.parse(req.header('CustomHeaders')) : {};
+
+  // Prepare the request
+  const requestConfig = {
+    method: req.method,
+    url: targetURL + req.url,
+    json: req.body,
+    headers,
+  };
+
+  // Make the request, and respond with result
+  axios.request(requestConfig)
+    .then((response) => {
+      res.send(200, response.data);
+    }).catch((error) => {
+      res.send(500, { error });
+    });
+};