# Configure a proxy for your API calls with Angular CLI

DevFeed: [Configure a proxy for your API calls with Angular CLI](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/configure-a-proxy-for-your-api-calls-with-angular-cli-21301.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://juri.dev/blog/2016/11/configure-proxy-api-angular-cli/>)

Published: 2016-11-06T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Juri Strumpflohner](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/juri-strumpflohner.md>)

Topics: [Angular CLI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/angular-cli.md>), [Angular](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/angular.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cors.md>), [JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/javascript.md>), [Webpack](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/webpack.md>), [REST API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rest-api.md>), [TypeScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/typescript.md>), [CSS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/css.md>), [Sass](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sass.md>), [Ajax](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ajax.md>), [HTTP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/http.md>)

Tags: [angular](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/angular.md>), [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [browser](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/browser.md>), [cli](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cli.md>), [cors](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cors.md>), [css](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/css.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [frontend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/frontend.md>), [http](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/http.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [proxy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/proxy.md>), [rest-api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rest-api.md>), [typescript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/typescript.md>), [webpack](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/webpack.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial explains how to configure the Angular CLI development server to proxy API calls to a separate backend, avoiding the need to use full backend URLs in the application and helping address cross-origin restrictions during local development.

## Source excerpt

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