Remove port number from Node HTTP request to external API - node.js

Question

I am writing a React app using Node, Express, and Webpack. My problem is that my API calls' URLs always have a port number between the host and the path. It seems like most of the questions on this topic have more to do with routing than with external API calls.
I am much more comfortable with Request, but I got very frustrated trying to get it to play nicely with Webpack, so I turned to Node's http which I know less about.
Here is the method responsible for the API call:
getData() {
const self = this;
const url = "api.civicapps.org";
const options = {
"method": "GET",
"mode": "no-cors",
"host": url,
"path": "/restaurant-inspections/?restaurant_name=" + this.state.nameQuery,
"port": 8080,
"headers": {
"Access-Control-Allow-Origin": "http://localhost:3000"
}
}
const p1 = new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
resolve(
http.request(options, function(res) {
res.setEncoding('utf8');
const body = {};
//This is clearly not ideal, but all I need right now is to get a response from the API
res.on('data', function(chunk) {
body.push(chunk);
});
return body;
}).end()
)
});
p1.then(function(data) {
console.log(data);
self.setState({
name: data.body
});
});
p1.catch(function(err) {
...
});
}
All I want to do is a simple test GET request to this API. Once that's working, I will be fine.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

It turns out setting the port to 80 and running with sudo solved the problem.

Answer 2

I know this topic is old, but I think it's good to share my experience with a similar issue in a Docker environment.
Since I was calling a service as hostname in my Node container, I didn't want the port to be set after the service name (e.g.: http://my-api-service/v1/users was called as http://my-api-service/v1/users:80).
I didn't reach to figure it out so I used Axios. It has its own definition types and can be used like that:
import Axios, { AxiosRequestConfig } from 'axios';
...
const options: AxiosRequestConfig = {
headers: { 'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + token, 'Accept': 'application/ld+json' }
};
Axios.get('http://my-api-service/v1/users', options)
.then((response) => {
console.log(response.data);
})
.catch((error) => {
console.error("Error: " + error.message);
})
.then(() => {
// always executed
// ...
});
This is the only way I found to solve that kind of errors with a Dockerized environment.