lofor

Lofor - A reverse proxy for development

Lofor is a lightweight development server which acts as reverse proxy to solve your cors header problems.

CORS is a common problem faced when developing frontend and backend separated projects.

During development, you may like to use a backend in localhost:7777/api/ and frontend in localhost:7777.

This becomes more complex when you use two different frameworks for backend and frontend.

How lofor solves the problem?

In lofor, you can map multiple hosts to single one.

Installation

pip install lofor

Forward command

lofor forward / http://localhost:5173 # Mapping to svelte dev server
lofor forward /api/ https://localhost:8000   # Mapping to django's dev server

# More examples
lofor forward api.localhost /api/ https://localhost:8000
lofor forward localhost http://localhost:3000

# You can also map to any real server
# lofor forward / https://example.com

Start lofor server

The server will be listening at http://localhost:7777

lofor start

To list lofor forwards

lofor list

Remove lofor forwards

lofor remove /api/