Chrome Developer Tools shows the preflight request in the network tab, as it does every other request. It's even called out as being part of the same communicat

Chrome Developer Tools shows the preflight request in the network tab, as it does every other request. It's even called out as being part of the same communication, if you group by communication instead of sorting by timestamp. What's not clear is why it's necessary sometimes and why it's not, where you have to dig into a mix of history and security policy, and do a bit of threat modelling.