Establish how the React app will invoke the existing API

[dondi]

Continuing our buildout, we should establish how the React app communicates with the existing API

[dondi]

@ceciliazaragoza will start on API integration this week. We identified the following starting points:

• Invoking the demo endpoints and showing that the new app receives the JSON
• Invoking the Load from Database modal and showing that the new app can populate the dropdown correctly, eventually performing a search

We will start these endpoints and proceed from there

[ceciliazaragoza]

I am able to invoke the existing API locally and console.log the demo content by switching the demo in the sidebar. I need to further develop the CORS configuration so that the localhost server can be accessed from both localhost:5001 and localhost:5173.

[dondi]

@ceciliazaragoza has set this up to interact with the API locally, and now needs to ensure that it works in both local and deployed environments #1265