The idea behind the example

This example applies this gist https://gist.github.com/jamsesso/67fd937b74989dc52e33 to Nextjs and provides:

• Reverse proxy in development mode by add http-proxy-middleware to custom server
• NOT a recommended approach to production scale (hence explicit dev flag) as we should scope proxy as outside UI applications and have separate web server taking care of that.

Sorry for the extra packages. I belong to the minority camp of writing ES6 code on Windows developers. Essentially you only need http-proxy-middleware on top of bare-bone Nextjs setup to run this example.

How to run it

npm i; npm run build; npm run dev;

What it does

Take any random query string to the index page and does a GET to /api/<query string> which gets routed internally to https://swapi.co/api/<query string>, or any API endpoint you wish to configure through the proxy.

Expectation

/api/people/2 routed to https://swapi.co/api/people/2
Try Reset

{
  "name": "C-3PO",
  "height": "167",
  "mass": "75",
  "hair_color": "n/a",
  "skin_color": "gold",
  "eye_color": "yellow",
  "birth_year": "112BBY",
  "gender": "n/a",
  "homeworld": "https://swapi.co/api/planets/1/",
  "films": [
    "https://swapi.co/api/films/2/",
    "https://swapi.co/api/films/5/",
    "https://swapi.co/api/films/4/",
    "https://swapi.co/api/films/6/",
    "https://swapi.co/api/films/3/",
    "https://swapi.co/api/films/1/"
  ],
  "species": [
    "https://swapi.co/api/species/2/"
  ],
  "vehicles": [],
  "starships": [],
  "created": "2014-12-10T15:10:51.357000Z",
  "edited": "2014-12-20T21:17:50.309000Z",
  "url": "https://swapi.co/api/people/2/"
}