httptoolkit VS http-proxy

HTTP Toolkit, you will need to install one in your PC and another one in the emulator.

Maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but if you could side-load on windows this app should work. https://httptoolkit.com/

use https://httptoolkit.com/ but it's getting a bit off-topic :)

I run HTTP Toolkit (https://httptoolkit.com) which passed $2k a couple of years back. No longer a side project, as it's made enough money for me to work on it full time for a fair while now, but it certainly started that way, and it's still a one-man show (plus many wonderful open-source contributors).

I suspect that'll be a common theme in answers here though: if you have a side project making $2k a month, in most of the world that's enough for you to go full-time and try to take it further. If you can make $2k/month on something working only part-time, you can definitely make a lot more if you focus on it.

On your questions: HTTP Toolkit is a desktop app (plus a mobile app and other components for integrations) but it's an Electron app that effectively functions as a SaaS (with a freemium subscription model) that just happens to have a component that runs on your computer. And actually getting to $2k wasn't overnight at all - it took a couple of years of slow steady slog. A few inflection points that made a notable difference (releasing rewriting support & Android support particularly) but mostly it was a matter of "just keep pushing", trusting the trajectory would keep going, and steadily grinding upwards. It's great where it is now, but it's hard work - a solo business is not for the faint of heart!

you can use tools like https://httptoolkit.com/ to check the requests

Take a look at https://github.com/http-party/node-http-proxy , specifically their .web() helper

I have been tasked with writing a proxy server that takes a clients requests and forwards it to a target server (normal proxy stuff). The client and the target are out of my control. The only change in the client is that the its requests to the proxy server instead of the target. Now, what I need to do is modify the response from target because the client expects it in a certain format and the server responds with a different format. I have a working implementation using http-proxy (https://github.com/http-party/node-http-proxy) that works over HTTP . But I need it to work over HTTPS, I can't make much sense of the documentation and I can't find any additional resources on how HTTPS can be implemented. The client-proxy and proxy-target connection both need to be encrypted(HTTPS). I found solutions using different tools but they mostly seem to be encrypted end to end, so the proxy can't read the response data(I need to be able to modify it). Any ideas on how I can do this?

What you're describing is a proxy server. If you wanted to use Node.js check out https://github.com/http-party/node-http-proxy. Notice that the examples there just forward the req though which potentially has identifying information like cookies, so you'll need to rework to anonymize. Should be straightforward.

There's several ways to have a blog path contain a separate setup from the marketing/product routes.

One is to run a reverse proxy on the root domain to pull in separate routes for various services.

https://github.com/http-party/node-http-proxy

You can do rewrites at the server level for the root domain

Or if the app on the root domain can do the routing for you (have done this before with a Rails app)

Check the documentation of the http-proxy-middleware library (and of the node-http-proxy library, used under-the-hood) to learn how you can manipulate the proxied request & response.

Relevant node-http-proxy issue: https://github.com/http-party/node-http-proxy/issues/230

I'm running Node app in Heroku which is using node-http-proxy, and I've given my Heroku app the domain "example.com"