create-react-app proxy requests to php backend

It turns out that by starting my php backend with $ php -S localhost:8888 -t public was causing the brunt of the problem. After digging through create-react-app issues I found that one user was having a similar issue with a php backend (https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/issues/800).

The solution is to start the server like so: $ php -S 0.0.0.0:8888 -t public this will allow create-react-app to properly proxy requests to the php server. This also allowed me to curl localhost:8888

Additionally, I needed to uncomment always_populate_raw_post_data = -1 in my php.ini file per (Warning about `$HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA` being deprecated)

My setup as follows:

package.json

{  "name": "client",  "version": "0.4.2",  "private": true,  "devDependencies": {    "enzyme": "^2.6.0",    "react-addons-test-utils": "^15.4.1",    "react-scripts": "0.7.0"  },  "dependencies": {    "isomorphic-fetch": "^2.2.1",    "react": "^15.4.1",    "react-dom": "^15.4.1",    "react-router-dom": "^4.2.2"  },  "scripts": {    "start": "react-scripts start",    "build": "react-scripts build",    "test": "react-scripts test --env=jsdom",    "eject": "react-scripts eject"  },  "proxy": "http://localhost:8888/"}

fetch from client-side

function login(userData, onError, cb) {  return fetch('/v1/auth/login', { // <-- this works correctly now    method: 'post',    body: JSON.stringify(userData),    headers: {      'Accept': 'application/json',      'Content-Type': 'application/json',    },  }).then(checkStatus)    .then(parseJSON)    .then(cb)    .catch(onError);}

Hopefully this will help anyone else experiencing a similar issue.