Enhancement: Improve docs hint that dev server proxy key is a RegExp, not a glob

[supermanHub]

What problem does this feature solve?

Current Behavior

If developers specify some regex on dev server proxy, it does not work.

// vue.config.js
module.exports = {
  devServer: {
    proxy: {
      '/interaction/*/info':  .... // Path regex does not work!!!
    }
  }
}

Expected Behavior

Some basic path regex should be support, please refer to context matching

NOTE: I believe this feature should to have a very higher priority, could anybody please kindly to work on it? Thank you very much!

What does the proposed API look like?

At least to match * in path regex. for example,

if path regex equals to /interaction/*/info; then

1. Dev server should to proxy /interaction/middle-path/info to backend server.

2. And must not proxy /interaction/middle-path/anther-path/info to back-end server.

etc...,

please refer to context matching

[LinusBorg]

I'm sure we already support regular expressions. The issue is that http-proxy-middleware doesn't - it supports globs.

• glob: /interaction/*/info
• RegExp: ^/interaction/[^/]/info

We haven't properly documented this special behaviour of our implementation, which we should definitely change.

[supermanHub]

@LinusBorg Thanks for your quick response, I am analyzing the cli source code, and almost find out the answer.

I see in the cli source code, regex is in use. code is return pathname.match(context).

But, I believe a much more better solution is that using glob. Because of it's the standard way for uri pattern match~

Anyway, I accept the RegExp and hope some of you can append some documents about this feature.

@LinusBorg Thank you very much. I agree to close this issue. have a nice day.

[gauseen]

@LinusBorg

// vue.config.js

proxy: {
		'/mdm2/api/!(mock)': {
			target: 'http://domainA',
			changeOrigin: true,
		},
		'/mdm2/api/mock': {
			target: 'http://domainB',
			changeOrigin: true,
		},
	}

// This proxy Ok

/mdm2/api/mock/userInfo --> http://domainB/mdm2/api/mock

// But this proxy don't work

/mdm2/api/userInfo --> http://domainA/mdm2/api/userInfo

thank you for your help！

[LinusBorg]

Again: it has to be a RegExp string: '/mdm2/api/(?!mock)'

[gauseen]

thank you very much