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Why am I still getting Access-Control-Allow-Origin header errors in my Express API when preflight requests return a 204 status code?

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Why am I still getting Access-Control-Allow-Origin header errors in my Express API when preflight requests return a 204 status code?
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  1. cors middleware · expressjs.com
  2. Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) - HTTP · developer.mozilla.org
  3. Access-Control-Allow-Origin header - HTTP · developer.mozilla.org
  4. CORS errors - HTTP · developer.mozilla.org
  5. Reason: CORS header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' missing - HTTP · developer.mozilla.org

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