Enabling CORS in Spring WebFlux and Returning a Flux

Learn how to enable cross-origin resource sharing in Spring Webflux. Also, learn how the client application's request can activate the reactive functionality in Spring.

We want to connect to the backend from a client application that is deployed at a different origin because it uses a different port (at least during development). In web terms, that means the frontend will do a cross origin request. Unless we explicitly allow CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) in our configuration, that connection is going to be rejected.

CorsWebFilter bean

To enable CORS with WebFlux globally, one of the options is to inject a CorsWebFilter bean in the context with custom configuration of the allowed origins, methods, headers, etc. We’ll configure it to allow any method and header from the origin, localhost:4200, where our frontend will be deployed.

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