create-react-app proxy works only with fetch api but not in simple get of the browser
<p>I'm using pretty small create-react-app running on port 3000 setup to proxy requests to backend server running on port 8080.
If I put in the browser address bar <code>http://localhost:3000/api/me</code> I get back the index.html page but if I use fetch API to get <code>/api/me</code> it try to call to by backend.</p>

<p>The problem is that I have to authenticate with the backend which will set a cookie but since I can't access the login page on <code>http://localhost:3000/login</code> I can't get the cookie.</p>

<p>On a different project which I've eject from create-react-app I have small file to run webpack-dev-server wih the configuration</p>

<pre><code>  proxy: {
    "*": "http://localhost:9191"
  }
</code></pre>

<p>which does proxy requests even when put into the browser address bar.</p>

<p>Is it possible to create such setup in create-react-app?</p>