Since Capacitor 4.0 there are two new core plugins that can make life with challenging APIs a lot easier.

If you encountered CORS issues before there is now a simple Capacitor HTTP Plugin that you can use to automatically use native libraries on iOS and Android to make API calls.

On top of that there’s now also a Capacitor Cookies Plugin which makes working with Cookies a lot easier as you can embrace the native libraries for Cookie management, which solves some previous problems.

Let’s see this in action by using a simply free duck API that has no CORS!