Not able to resolve an API hosted as a ClusterIP service on Minikube when calling from the React JS frontend.

The basic architecture of my application is as follows React --> .NET core API

Both these components are hosted as ClusterIP services. I have created an ingress service with http paths pointing to React component and the .NET core API.

However when I try calling it from the browser, react application renders, but the call to the API fails with net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED

Below are the .yml files for

1. React application

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
    name: frontend-clusterip
spec:
    type: ClusterIP
    ports:
    - port: 59000
        targetPort: 3000
    selector:
    app: frontend

2. .NET core API

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
    name: backend-svc-nodeport
spec:
    type: ClusterIP
    selector:
    app: backend-svc
    ports:
    - port: 5901
        targetPort: 59001

3. ingress service

apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata: 
    name: ingress-service
    annotations:
    kubernetes.io/ingress.class: nginx
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /$1
spec:
    rules:
    - http:
        paths:
        - path: /?(.*)
            backend: 
            serviceName: frontend-clusterip
            servicePort: 59000
        - path: /api/?(.*)
            backend:
            serviceName: backend-svc-nodeport
            servicePort: 5901

4. frontend deployment

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
    name: frontend
spec:
    selector:
    matchLabels:
        app: frontend
    replicas: 1
    template:
        metadata:
        labels:
        app: frontend
    spec:
        containers:
        - name: frontend
        image: upendra409/tasks_tasks.frontend
        ports:
        - containerPort: 3000
        env:
        - name: "REACT_APP_ENVIRONMENT"
            value: "Kubernetes"
        - name: "REACT_APP_BACKEND"
            value: "http://backend-svc-nodeport"
        - name: "REACT_APP_BACKENDPORT"
            value: "5901"

This is the error I get in the browser:

xhr.js:166 GET 
http://backend-svc-nodeport:5901/api/tasks net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED

I installed curl in the frontend container to get in the frontend pod to try to connect the backend API using the above URL, but the command doesn't work

C:\test\tasks [develop ≡ +1 ~6 -0 !]> kubectl exec -it frontend-655776bc6d-nlj7z --curl http://backend-svc-nodeport:5901/api/tasks

Error: unknown flag: --curl