Express CORS response - express

Question

I am using express to return an api response retrieved via a request call.
router.post('/', function(req, res){
var options = {
...
}
rp(options)
.then(function (parsedBody) {
console.log(parsedBody);
res.json(parsedBody)
})
The console log displays the expected payload, also when I use Postman I also see the expected payload.
When though my client app gets the response it is:
Response {type: "cors", url: "http://localhost:3001/api/", redirected: false, status: 200, ok: true, …}
Ive tried adding CORS middleware:
app.use(function(request, response, next) {
response.header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
response.header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers",
"Origin, X-Rquested-With, Content-Type, Accept");
next();
});
My client is a very simple react app using fetch:
fetch('http://localhost:3001/api/', {
method: 'POST',
dataType: 'JSON',
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
},
body: data,
}).then((response) => {
console.log(response);
}).catch((response) => {
console.log('Error');
});
My react app is localhost:3000 and the express api localhost:3001, the expected payload is a very simple object...
{
athlete: {
firstname: "Matt"
...
}
}
How can I just forward on the api request response to the clients fetch success method?

Answer 1

The problem is not CORS related, the response within the react app needed parsing as json:
.then((response) => {
console.log(response.json());
})