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When you are dealing with SAP CAP you will need test data to test your services and Fiori UIs. This blog post guides you to all relevant steps to easily generate .csv-files with test data and deploy it to a local persistent database (local development).
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.
