I'm building a backend API using Laravel for my web application, and I'm running into issues with CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) configuration. My front end, built with a different technology stack, is hosted on a separate domain. I've followed numerous guides including https://www.scaler.com/topics/software-engineering/backend-developer-roadmap/ on enabling CORS in Laravel, but I'm still facing problems.

Here's what I've done so far:

In my config/cors.php file, I've set the following configurations:

return [ 'paths' => ['api/*'], 'allowed_methods' => ['*'], 'allowed_origins' => ['https://myfrontenddomain.com'], 'allowed_headers' => ['*'], 'exposed_headers' => [], 'max_age' => 0, 'supports_credentials' => false, ];

I've also tried using middleware to handle CORS in my routes:

`// app/Http/Middleware/EnableCORS.php

namespace App\Http\Middleware;

use Closure;

class EnableCORS { public function handle($request, Closure $next) { return $next($request) ->header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', 'https://myfrontenddomain.com') ->header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS') ->header('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', 'Content-Type, X-Auth-Token, Origin, Authorization'); } } `

And I've added this middleware to my Kernel.php:

protected $middleware = [ // ... \App\Http\Middleware\EnableCORS::class, ];

Despite these configurations, I'm still encountering CORS-related errors when trying to make requests from my frontend to the Laravel API. Is there something critical I'm missing here? Could anyone provide insights on how to properly set up CORS for a Laravel API that needs to communicate with a frontend hosted on a different domain? Thank you for your help!