Description

Resource for understanding Express middleware chaining and web proxy usage

Installation

npm install

Setup a web Proxy

Recommanded: https://github.com/garily/nodejs-forward-proxy-server

Understanding without proxy

1. Get Data

curl http://localhost:3000

2. Get with a dedicated filetering middleware

curl http://localhost:3000/filteredData

Understanding with web Proxy

1. Get Data through Web proxy

curl http://localhost:3000/proxyData

2. Get data through a proxy with a dedicated filetering middleware

curl http://localhost:3000/filteredData