If I wrap a web app for mobile using Capacitor/desktop app in Electron, can I make Axios/fetch requests on the client-side without having to worry about CORS?

[ajaypillay]

Hi, I was wondering about the following:

1. If I develop a web app and wrap this for mobile with Capacitor, would I be able to fetch page contents of an external site from the user's end without having to hit my server first, for non-CORS enabled sites?

2. Does the same rule apply if I do this with Electron?

You can't do this traditionally unless the external site allows for CORS, so you'd have to use a proxy or some other fancy method to bypass this.

Basically I have an idea of something to develop, and because the data I'm parsing requires me to fetch raw HTML of a page (there's no API either) and CORS isn't enabled, I need to use a proxy to do this. So what I have in mind is to have the publicly available web version of this be less performant since I'll need to queue requests from every client, and if this is a non-issue if wrapped in Capacitor for mobile or Electron for desktop, then there'll be the option to use a more powerful version if it's downloaded if the user wishes not to be bogged down by this queue.

Thanks!