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Discussion on: How do you protect your backend API in your microservice if you use a Single Page Application on the frontend?

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István Lantos • Edited

Thank You!

Yeah, I know about the proxy in vue-cli, but the problem I don't want to use this Node.js server in production, so I build the vue project and Go will be the static fileserver. For development, the webpack based proxy server in vue-cli is fine though.

I can implement a proxy in Go which is exposing the api server within the static server (under a route like /api/v1, this way I can use relative urls in axios), but my problem with this approach is that the static server is not only serving the static files in this case, it's doing a little bit of backend work also. Which I try to ignore, because what if the static files hosted on AWS?

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rhymes

Why don't you just deploy the build of the SPA to the go server so it can serve it?

I'm not using Node as a server, just for development. I have a post build command that builds the static files so that the Python server can send them to the client.