Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Angular 6 and Laravel 5

Setting up Laravel CORS

Laravel has excellent support for using CORS in its applications. Let's see how we can configure it using a library called barryvdh/laravel-cors:

1. Open your Terminal window inside the chapter-10 folder.

2. Type the following command:

 docker-compose up -d

3. Now, inside the php-fpm container, type the following command:

 docker-compose exec php-fpm bash

This step is very important. If you forget this command, it is very likely that you will find an error, or you may be at risk of using your local composer version to execute the following command.

4. Inside the container's bash, type the following command:

 composer require barryvdh/laravel-cors

Thanks to the newest version of Laravel (5.6), our new library is already ...