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You will have to deal with CORS – Cross-Origin Resource Sharing – if you develop Node.js Apps locally and want to access local microservices, for example an API service. To avoid CORS issues, you can configure your Apache.
A proxy server is needed if you want to develop SAPUI5 Apps locally, e.g. in Visual Studio Code, and access a remote OData Service like Northwind OData Service. A node.js server adds CORS headers to the requests which come from a local running app.
As a career changer I had hardly any experience with setting up basic development systems, and that is the reason, why I understand the huge challenge which programming newbies often have. I want to explain which basic development system I use and why.
