With separate client and server apps, how do I get a user's IP address, in Node with Koa?

Question

I have two apps, one front end and one a REST API back-end. How do I get the IP address of the user accessing the back-end when the front-end client makes a request to the back-end?

I have tried this.request.ip , but it shows the IP of my front-end site, not my actual IP address.

Answer 1

That would be in the HTTP incoming request object. I don't know what property in the object from the top of my head, but you'll find it in your route if you simply log the request: console.log(this.request) . You can bypass Koa and get the raw Node request object with this.req instead - but I'm sure the client IP is available in the Koa request as well.