With proxy enabled, websocket requests in network tab every second

[Ethan Frei]

Hello. I have a question about these piling up in my development console (this is in firefox). A new couple of rows gets added every second:

I've added a proxy for my server application at port 3030. That server does have a wildcard endpoint for any route not recognized to send back build/index.html because routing is to be done within the Elm application.

The proxy definitely works, I can get json bodies from my GET endpoints from my server app.

I attempted to create a manual proxy which would only forward '/api' requests and that seemed to work, but that feels dirty since now I have packages.config, lock file and packages_json folder. Also the project requires more setup (npm install) for all developers and in the Dockerfile. I'd rather just stick with elm-app start.

Any ideas how to resolve this spamming? Hot reloading is working at the moment, which I wouldn't expect because I think that's the job of these websocket requests.

[Ethan Frei]

I think I've solved this in an unconventional way. I use elmapp.config.js's setupProxy in a way it wasn't meant to.

module.exports = {
    setupProxy: (app, server) => {
        this.proxy = [{
            context: ['/api'],
            target: 'http://localhost:3030'
        }];
    }
}

I'm going to go with that for now, but leave it the issue open.

EDIT: formatting