Proxy in client package.json used by default or actively ignored

[diberry]

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When running React with Azure functions (in an /api folder) as a single application, locally, without SWA CLI, I need a proxy in the package.json. Since the CLI is a bit new and not totally hardened, can the CLI either use the proxy if found (as the default) or ignore the proxy with a CLI switch?

[anthonychu]

Can you explain how this would be better? If you use the CLI, the CLI is the proxy. Anything to /api is proxied to the function app.