Checking if 3000 port is running

frontend/quasar.conf.js

@@ -2,13 +2,11 @@
  * This file runs in a Node context (it's NOT transpiled by Babel), so use only
  * the ES6 features that are supported by your Node version. https://node.green/
  */
-const envParser = require("./src/boot/env-parser");
-
 // Configuration for your app
 // https://quasar.dev/quasar-cli/quasar-conf-js
 /* eslint-env node */
 
-module.exports = function(/* ctx */) {
+module.exports = function() {
   return {
     // https://quasar.dev/quasar-cli/supporting-ts
     supportTS: false,
@@ -20,6 +18,7 @@ module.exports = function(/* ctx */) {
     // --> boot files are part of "main.js"
     // https://quasar.dev/quasar-cli/boot-files
     boot: ["i18n", "axios"],
+    target : 'node',
 
     // https://quasar.dev/quasar-cli/quasar-conf-js#Property%3A-css
     css: ["app.scss"],
@@ -28,19 +27,14 @@ module.exports = function(/* ctx */) {
     extras: [
       "material-icons",
       "fontawesome-v5",
-      // 'eva-icons',
-      // 'themify',
-      // 'line-awesome',
-      // 'roboto-font-latin-ext', // this or either 'roboto-font', NEVER both!
-
       "roboto-font" // optional, you are not bound to it
       // 'material-icons', // optional, you are not bound to it
     ],
 
     // Full list of options: https://quasar.dev/quasar-cli/quasar-conf-js#Property%3A-build
     build: {
       vueRouterMode: "hash", // available values: 'hash', 'history'
-      env: envParser(),
+      env: require("./src/boot/env-parser")(),
       // transpile: false,
 
       // Add dependencies for transpiling with Babel (Array of string/regex)

frontend/src/boot/axios.js

@@ -7,6 +7,18 @@ const axiosInstance = axios.create({
   baseURL: process.env.BASE_URL
 });
 const _appendSubdomain = (domain, subdomain) => {
+  // Get the hostname (including port)
+  const hostname = domain.split("://")[1];
+
+  // a domain name contains at least one letter
+  const hostnameIsDomain = hostname.match(/[a-z]/i);
+
+  // skip adding sub-domain to IP
+  if (!hostnameIsDomain) {
+    return domain;
+  }
+
+  // If localhost is in domain
   if (domain.indexOf("localhost") > -1) {
     return domain;
   }

frontend/src/boot/env-parser.js

@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
 const DotEnv = require("dotenv");
+const execSync = require("child_process").execSync;
+let is3000On = false;
+
+try {
+  is3000On = execSync("lsof -t -i :3000 -s TCP:LISTEN").toString();
+} catch (e) {
+  // not running throws error
+}
 
 module.exports = function() {
+  if (!!is3000On) {
+    return { ...DotEnv.config().parsed, BASE_URL: "http://127.0.0.1:3000" };
+  }
   return DotEnv.config().parsed;
 };