webpack - No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header in Angular 2 app

Question

For this project, I'm just learning and practicing Angular 2. I have no server-side and am making API requests to barchart ondemand api .

I'm wondering if it is possible to bypass the cors issue. I'm still fairly new to all this, so baby-step instructions are really appreciated! I'm using http://localhost:8080.

Error message: (api key commented out)

XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://marketdata.websol.barchart.com/getHistory.json?key=MY_API_KEY&symbol=GOOG&type=daily&startDate=20150311000000. Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://localhost:8080' is therefore not allowed access.

StockInformationService:

import {Injectable} from 'angular2/core';
import {Http, Headers} from 'angular2/http';
import {Observable} from 'rxjs/Rx';

@Injectable()
export class StockInformationService {
    private apiRoot = "http://marketdata.websol.barchart.com/getHistory.json?key=MY_API_KEY&";

    constructor (private _http: Http) {}

    getData(symbol: string): Observable<any> {
        // Tried adding headers with no luck
        const headers = new Headers();
        headers.append('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', 'Content-Type');
        headers.append('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'GET');
        headers.append('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*');

        return this._http.get(this.apiRoot + "symbol=" + symbol + "&type=daily&startDate=20150311000000", {headers: headers})
            .map(response => response.json());
    }
}

App Component:

import {Component} from "angular2/core";
import {VolumeComponent} from '../../components/volume/volume';
import {StockInformationService} from '../../core/stock-information.service';

@Component({
    selector: 'app-shell',
    template: require('./app-shell.html'),
    directives: [VolumeComponent],
    providers: [StockInformationService]
})
export class AppShell {
    constructor(private _stockInformationService: StockInformationService) {}

    // In my template, on button click, make api request
    requestData(symbol: string) {
        this._stockInformationService.getData(symbol)
            .subscribe(
                data => {
                    console.log(data)
                },
                error => console.log("Error: " + error)
            )}
    }

}

In my console, the requestData Error: Error: [object Object]

Answer 1

This a problem with the CORS configuration on the server. It is not clear what server are you using, but if you are using Node+express you can solve it with the following code

// Add headers
app.use(function (req, res, next) {

    // Website you wish to allow to connect
    res.setHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', 'http://localhost:8888');

    // Request methods you wish to allow
    res.setHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'GET, POST, OPTIONS, PUT, PATCH, DELETE');

    // Request headers you wish to allow
    res.setHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', 'X-Requested-With,content-type');

    // Set to true if you need the website to include cookies in the requests sent
    // to the API (e.g. in case you use sessions)
    res.setHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Credentials', true);

    // Pass to next layer of middleware
    next();
});

that code was an answer of @jvandemo to a very similar question.