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title: How to run the Unleash Proxy
---
The [Unleash Proxy](../sdks/unleash-proxy.md) provides a way for you to consume feature toggles in front-end clients, such as the [JavaScript Proxy client](../sdks/proxy-javascript.md) and [React Proxy client](../sdks/proxy-react.md).
The [Unleash Proxy](../sdks/unleash-proxy.md) provides a way for you to consume feature toggles in [front-end clients](../sdks/index.md#front-end-sdks), such as the [JavaScript Proxy client](../sdks/proxy-javascript.md) and [React Proxy client](../sdks/proxy-react.md).
Depending on your setup, the Proxy is most easily run in one of two ways, depending on your situation:
- Run the proxy via Docker
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This is what you need to do before you can run the proxy
- an unleash server to connect to
- a client API token for the proxy to use
- A running Unleash server to connect to
- A client API token for the proxy to use.
- if you're running the Proxy via Docker: [the `docker` command line tool](https://www.docker.com/)
- If you're running the Proxy as a Node.js app: [Node.js and its command line tools](https://nodejs.org/).
## How to run the Proxy via Docker
The easiest way to run Unleash is via Docker. We have published a [docker image on docker hub](https://hub.docker.com/r/unleashorg/unleash-proxy).
1. **Pull the Proxy image**
### 1. Pull the Proxy image
```bash
docker pull unleashorg/unleash-proxy
```
2. **Start the proxy**
### 2. Start the proxy
```bash
docker run \
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unleashorg/unleash-proxy
```
You should see the following output:
You should see the following output:
```bash
Unleash-proxy is listening on port 3000!
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To run the Proxy via Node.js, you'll have to create your own Node.js project and use the Unleash Proxy as a dependency. Assuming you've already set up your project, here's the steps to take to start the proxy as part of your app:
1. **Install the Unleash Proxy package**
### 1. Install the Unleash Proxy package
``` shell npm2yarn
npm install @unleash/proxy
```
2. **Initialize and start the proxy in your code.** A fully working sample app that uses the proxy:
### 2. Initialize and start the proxy in your code.
A fully working sample app that uses the proxy:
``` js
const port = 3000;
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curl http://localhost:3000/proxy -H "Authorization: some-secret"
```
The output is of the form described in the [payload section](#payload).
## Health endpoint
The proxy will try to synchronize with the Unleash API at startup, until it has successfully done that the proxy will return `HTTP 503 - Not Read?` for all request. You can use the health endpoint to validate that the proxy is ready to recieve requests:
```bash
curl http://localhost:3000/proxy/health -I
```
```bash
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Access-Control-Expose-Headers: ETag
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 2
ETag: W/"2-eoX0dku9ba8cNUXvu/DyeabcC+s"
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2021 10:38:27 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=5
```
Check the reference docs for API return values