NGINX dev proxy-pass container

Made this script for local frontend development, that has to access an API server on the web, under the same server route. But this script can be used for general development routing purposes. This easily lets you set-up a development server with multiple proxy-pass paths to different server backend urls.

schrodingers-nginx.sh allows to:

• by-pass CORS and same-site policies when accessing API test server in development setting
• reroute different server API routes to one development URL
• reroute development server to host URL of backend server.

Usage

Required:

• docker (will pull the official nginx docker image)
• bash

Update SERVER_URL, PROXY_PATH, SERVER_PATH arrays to your needs, run the script.

This will start the nginx-proxy docker container, default route is localhost:3333 port can be changed via ACESS_PORT.

Example

SERVER_URL=( "host.docker.internal:3000" "test-server.com" "test-server.com" )
PROXY_PATH=( "/" "/api2/v2/" "/web-socket" )
SERVER_PATH=( "/" "/api2/" "/socket" )

This routes all root traffic from localhost:3333/ to localhost:3000 e.g. a local development frontend. From localhost:3333 api calls or websocket connections are passed to respective urls at test-server.com.

Script tested on mac, linux, chromeos.