nginx.conf

upstream api {
  # Could be host.docker.internal - Docker for Mac/Windows - the host itself
  # Could be your API in a appropriate domain
  # Could be other container in the same network, like container_name:port
  server localhost:8080;
}

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name localhost;

  location / {

    # if ($request_method = 'OPTIONS') {
    #   add_header 'Access-Control-Max-Age' 1728000;
    #   add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
    #   add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'Authorization,Accept,Origin,DNT,X-CustomHeader,Keep-Alive,User-Agent,
    #   X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type,Content-Range,Range';
    #   add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET,POST,OPTIONS,PUT,DELETE,PATCH';
    #   add_header 'Content-Type' 'application/json';
    #   add_header 'Content-Length' 0;
    #   return 204;
    # }

    # add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
    # add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'Authorization,Accept,Origin,DNT,X-CustomHeader,Keep-Alive,User-Agent,
    # X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type,Content-Range,Range';
    # add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET,POST,OPTIONS,PUT,DELETE,PATCH';
    proxy_pass http://api/;
  }
}