Spring Boot + React.js Axios: 403 Forbidden for HTTP POST calls

In my dev environment I have a BE built using Spring Boot and an FE built using React.js (Redux + Axios). Whenever I try to do an HTTP POST with Axios, I disallow 403. The HTTP GET works as expected, and the HTTP POST calls made from Postman also work fine .

PersonController.java

@RestController
@RequestMapping(value = "/api/v1/person")
public class PersonController {

    @Autowired
    private PersonRepository mPersonDAO;

    @PostMapping
    public ResponseEntity<Person> create(@RequestBody Person person) {
        Person result = mPersonDAO.save(person);
        return new ResponseEntity<>(result, HttpStatus.CREATED);
    }
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

React.js service

import axios from 'axios';

const BASE_URL = 'https://localhost:8080/api/v1';
const PERSON_API = BASE_URL + '/person'

export function syncUser (person, onSuccess) {
  axios({
    method: 'post',
    url: PERSON_API,
    data: {
      person
    }
  }).then((response) => {
      onSuccess(response);
    }).catch(function (error) {
      console.log(error);
    });
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

StackTrace:

localhost/:1 XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://localhost:8080/api/v1/person. 
dispatchXhrRequest @ xhr.js:177
xhrAdapter @ xhr.js:12
dispatchRequest @ dispatchRequest.js:52

Response for preflight has invalid HTTP status code 403