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+## Using with `create-react-app`, Gatsby, and other development servers
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+`react-scripts` (the underlying library for `create-react-app`) and other popular development servers often set up catchall serving for you; in other words, if you try to request a route that doesn't exist, the dev server will try to serve you `/index.html`. This is problematic when you are trying to hit a local API endpoint like `netlify-lambda` sets up for you - your browser will attempt to parse the `index.html` file as JSON. This is why you may see this error:
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+`Uncaught (in promise) SyntaxError: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0`
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+If this desribes your situation, then you need to proxy for local development. Read on. Don't worry it's easier than it looks.
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 ### Proxying for local development
 
 When your function is deployed on Netlify, it will be available at `/.netlify/functions/function-name` for any given deploy context. It is advantageous to proxy the `netlify-lambda serve` development server to the same path on your primary development server.