Building Web Apps with Spring 5 and Angular

Configure Spring app for CORS

In this section, you will learn about appropriate configuration that needs to be done in order to have Angular app invoke Spring RESTful APIs.

In the previous chapters, you learned how to run Angular and Spring apps on different servers which can be accessed using different URLs. An Angular app, when started with the ng serve --open command, runs on port 4200 and can be accessed using a URL such as http://localhost:4200. On the other hand, a Spring web app runs on a different port such as 8080 and can be accessed using a URL such as http://localhost:8080. These apps, therefore, have different origins. Note that origin is combination of protocol, hostname, and the port number. As per the same origin policy, web ...