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Can't get express to make a "cors request" in Heroku

I am using Express.JS (backend) and React.js (front end) for my app on Heroku. The following Node.js code works when I am running my app locally,

//code based off of:
// https://medium.com/@dtkatz/3-ways-to-fix-the-cors-error-and-how-access-control-allow-origin-works-d97d55946d9

const express = require('express');
const request = require('request');

const app = express();
const apiKey = 'API-key';


app.use((req, res, next) => {
  res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*');
  next();
});

app.get('/getCoinInfo', (req, res) => {
  console.log('The request has been received!!')
  request(
    { url: 'https://pro-api.coinmarketcap.com/v1/cryptocurrency/listings/latest?CMC_PRO_API_KEY=' + apiKey},
    (error, response, body) => {
      if (error || response.statusCode !== 200) {
        return res.status(500).json({ type: 'error', message: err.message });
      }
      
      res.json(JSON.parse(body));
    }
  )
});

const PORT = process.env.PORT || 3000;
app.listen(PORT, () => console.log(`listening on ${PORT}`));

But it does not work when I am deploying my app on heroku. When I console.log my response on the heroku version I get this

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Where the "type" of request is "basic" instead of "cors" . My local version runs fine and a console.log of the response looks like this:

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The only difference between my local version of my code and the Heroku version is that I am sending my request to a different address (my heroku app address instead of localhost3000)

  const getData = async () => {

     let data = ''
     
      try {

          
          const req = 
          `https://cryptoreactv2.herokuapp.com/getCoinInfo`;
          
          const response = await fetch(req);
          console.log(response)
          console.log(response.json())
          data = await response.json()
          await console.log(data);
          await setApiData(data);
          await searchData(query);
        
          
        } catch(e) { 
          console.log('Request could not be furfilled because of ' + e);
      }  
  } 
  
  

about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza
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