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

You're reading from   Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Angular 6 and Laravel 5 Become fluent in both frontend and backend web development with Docker, Angular and Laravel

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788833912
Length 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Fernando Monteiro Fernando Monteiro
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Preface 1. Understanding the Core Concepts of Laravel 5 FREE CHAPTER 2. The Benefits of TypeScript 3. Understanding the Core Concepts of Angular 6 4. Building the Baseline Backend Application 5. Creating a RESTful API Using Laravel - Part 1 6. Creating a RESTful API Using Laravel - Part 2 7. Progressive Web Applications with the Angular CLI 8. Dealing with the Angular Router and Components 9. Creating Services and User Authentication 10. Frontend Views with Bootstrap 4 and NgBootstrap 11. Building and Deploying Angular Tests 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting up CORS on a Laravel backend

Before proceeding with the necessary changes in our backend, let's talk about a very important and also very common subject in today's modern web applications, known as CORS.

When we use XMLHttpRequest or the Fetch API to get data from a given server, this call is usually performed from another application, and from somewhere else.

For security reasons, browsers restrict cross-origin HTTP requests.

A simple example to understand how CORS works is this: imagine that a frontend application running in a particular domain, for example, http://mysimpledomain.com, sends a request to another application in another domain called http://myanothersimpledomain.com.

CORS is a mechanism that uses additional HTTP headers to tell a browser to let a web application run at one origin, http://mysimpledomain.com, and have permissions to access selected...

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