$http doesn't work on ionic serve due to CORS!

I was trying to play with simple $http call to my external server (apis and other stuff to load/update data).
As i’m developping i’m using ionic serve

$http is not working on my firefox or chrome due to CORS protection !
I lost about 2 hours to find it and the ionic blog post helped me
http://blog.ionic.io/handling-cors-issues-in-ionic/

I’ve created my proxies in ionic.project and constant on app.js.

I’ve not used the gulp way to replace “dev” version and “prod” version. Instead i’m using a simple if which work on dev and prod.

var url  = API_PROD_URLS.'/myUrlsParams';
if (!window.cordova) // if current device is not a real one (ionic serve or ionic lab)
       url  = API_DEV_URLS.'/myUrlsParams';
          
$http.get(url) [...]

And everything is working like a charm.

i simply start my chrome with --disable-web-security flag and it is done… no need to define proxies or anything else.

@nraboy posted a little article about it for the main browsers safari, chrome and firefox:

I’ve tried it first but it was not working on my mac and if i forgot to re-enable cors protection i could be like “naked” on the web, so i prefered using proxies.

Other pros of using proxies is that i can change it quickly if my api urls change (for QA and PROD for example) and i can do it in only a single place. (using only constants in app.js could also do the tricks but i used the “official” way described on the ionic blog post as a gentle learner :slight_smile: )

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ionic team had made a blog post on this cors purpose.
You can look at it here