Solve Cross Origin Resource Sharing with Flask

You can get the results with a simple:

@app.route('your route', methods=['GET'])
def yourMethod(params):
    response = flask.jsonify({'some': 'data'})
    response.headers.add('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*')
    return response

Well, I faced the same issue. For new users who may land at this page. Just follow their official documentation.

Install flask-cors

pip install -U flask-cors

then after app initialization, initialize flask-cors with default arguments:

from flask import Flask
from flask_cors import CORS

app = Flask(__name__)
CORS(app)

@app.route("/")
def helloWorld():
   return "Hello, cross-origin-world!"

It worked like a champ, after bit modification to your code

# initialization
app = Flask(__name__)
app.config['SECRET_KEY'] = 'the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy   dog'
app.config['CORS_HEADERS'] = 'Content-Type'

cors = CORS(app, resources={r"/foo": {"origins": "http://localhost:port"}})

@app.route('/foo', methods=['POST'])
@cross_origin(origin='localhost',headers=['Content- Type','Authorization'])
def foo():
    return request.json['inputVar']

if __name__ == '__main__':
   app.run()

I replaced * by localhost. Since as I read in many blogs and posts, you should allow access for specific domain

Might as well make this an answer. I had the same issue today and it was more of a non-issue than expected. After adding the CORS functionality, you must restart your Flask server (ctrl + c -> python manage.py runserver, or whichever method you use)) in order for the change to take effect, even if the code is correct. Otherwise the CORS will not work in the active instance.

Here's how it looks like for me and it works (Python 3.6.1, Flask 0.12):

factory.py:

from flask import Flask
from flask_cors import CORS  # This is the magic


def create_app(register_stuffs=True):
    """Configure the app and views"""
    app = Flask(__name__)
    CORS(app)  # This makes the CORS feature cover all routes in the app

    if register_stuffs:
        register_views(app)
    return app


def register_views(app):
    """Setup the base routes for various features."""
    from backend.apps.api.views import ApiView
    ApiView.register(app, route_base="/api/v1.0/")

views.py:

from flask import jsonify
from flask_classy import FlaskView, route


class ApiView(FlaskView):
    @route("/", methods=["GET"])
    def index(self):
        return "API v1.0"

    @route("/stuff", methods=["GET", "POST"])
    def news(self):
        return jsonify({
            "stuff": "Here be stuff"
        })

In my React app console.log:

Sending request:
GET /stuff
With parameters:
null
bundle.js:17316 Received data from Api:
{"stuff": "Here be stuff"}

Solve Cross Origin Resource Sharing with Flask

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