Clarify proxy instructions in generated app README (#537)

* Clarify proxy instructions in generated app README

* Add backticks to format text/html as code

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@@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ To tell the development server to proxy any unknown requests to your API server
   "proxy": "http://localhost:4000",
 ```
 
-This way, when you `fetch('/api/todos')` in development, the development server will recognize that it’s not a static asset, and will proxy your request to `http://localhost:4000/api/todos` as a fallback.
+This way, when you `fetch('/api/todos')` in development, the development server will recognize that it’s not a static asset, and will proxy your request to `http://localhost:4000/api/todos` as a fallback. The development server will only attempt to send requests without a `text/html` accept header to the proxy.
 
 Conveniently, this avoids [CORS issues](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21854516/understanding-ajax-cors-and-security-considerations) and error messages like this in development:
 
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ Conveniently, this avoids [CORS issues](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21854
 Fetch API cannot load http://localhost:4000/api/todos. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://localhost:3000' is therefore not allowed access. If an opaque response serves your needs, set the request's mode to 'no-cors' to fetch the resource with CORS disabled.
 ```
 
-Keep in mind that `proxy` only has effect in development (with `npm start`), and it is up to you to ensure that URLs like `/api/todos` point to the right thing in production. You don’t have to use the `/api` prefix. Any unrecognized request will be redirected to the specified `proxy`.
+Keep in mind that `proxy` only has effect in development (with `npm start`), and it is up to you to ensure that URLs like `/api/todos` point to the right thing in production. You don’t have to use the `/api` prefix. Any unrecognized request without a `text/html` accept header will be redirected to the specified `proxy`.
 
 Currently the `proxy` option only handles HTTP requests, and it won’t proxy WebSocket connections.  
 If the `proxy` option is **not** flexible enough for you, alternatively you can: