How to enable CORS on Django REST Framework

When we develop rest api and want to consume form different website we have to enable cors.

In this tutorial i will show you how to enable cors

Install package

pip install django-cors-headers
and then add it to your installed apps:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'corsheaders',
    ...
)

You will also need to add a middleware class to listen in on responses in seetings.py:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    ...
    'corsheaders.middleware.CorsMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    ...
)

Now i will give two alternative anyone you can do

ALLOWED_HOSTS=['*']
CORS_ORIGIN_ALLOW_ALL = True
second alternative

ALLOWED_HOSTS=['http://localhost:5000']        
CORS_ORIGIN_ALLOW_ALL = False
CORS_ORIGIN_WHITELIST = (
   'http://localhost:5000',
)

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