I built a tiny api to help me send emails from my front end to my gmail inbox.I have installed cors, express and dotenv as dependencies to build this api.
const express = require("express");const emailjs = require("@emailjs/browser");const cors = require("cors");const app = express();require("dotenv").config({ path: `.env`,});app.use(express.json());app.use(cors());const PORT = process.env.PORT;app.post("/api/send_email", async (request, response) => { console.log(request.body); const { senderEmail, senderName, emailSubject, message } = request.body; const service_id = process.env.REACT_APP_SERVICE_ID; const template_id = process.env.REACT_APP_TEMPLATE_ID; const user_id = process.env.REACT_APP_USER_ID; const public_key = process.env.REACT_APP_PUBLIC_KEY; const templateParams = { to_name: "Cora", from_name: senderName, from_email: senderEmail, message: message, subject: emailSubject, }; try { response.set("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*"); emailjs .send(service_id, template_id, templateParams, public_key) .then(() => { response.status(201).send({ msg: "Message sent!" }); }); } catch (error) { console.error(error); response.status(500).send({ error: "Internal Server Error" }); }});app.listen(PORT, () => { console.log(`Server is online, listening on port ${PORT}...`);});I went online after the following error showed up in my console:
/contact:1 Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://contact-functionlity.onrender.com/api/send_email' from origin 'https://alfredo-galvez.netlify.app' has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource.and in most videos I saw on youtube mentioned installing cors and use it in your app, which is what I have done.I also tried setting up the response headers using:
app.use(cors({ origin: 'https://alfredo-galvez.netlify.app'}))I am a little bit stuck and have been trying to understand what is going on for a quite a while now, wondering is someone could help me out.
