I would like to build an application using Laravel as backend and Yeoman to build and manage my frontend. I know quite a few of these technologies.
I did not found a lot of worflows that would explain how to communicate between separate Laravel app and yeoman app (on different servers e.g). Maybe CORS is a good option.
Is anyone ever try to separate backend and frontend (with these technologies)?
Yeoman is not a front end framework - rather an application scaffold for generating a starting point for your front end.
Angular JS is my preferred option when using Laravel as a backend. You can use Yeoman to set up an Angular front end using this:
https://github.com/yeoman/generator-angular
An excellent tutorial series that helped me a lot when setting AngularJS up to talk to Laravel is here:
https://github.com/davemo/end-to-end-with-angularjs
Included is quite an extensive explanation on AngularJS security.
The Laravel backend should be setup as an API in the first instance to accept requests, heres a starting point to setup a basic API in Laravel from Laracon 2013
https://github.com/akuzemchak/laracon-todo-api
Laracasts also has a great series for building API's:
https://laracasts.com/series/incremental-api-development
Laracasts is a paid subscription service but would fully recommend it to Laravel beginners/intermediates
I know it's a long time ago since the question was asked, but perhaps it helps someone on it's way..
I would start with this package: https://github.com/jadjoubran/laravel5-angular-material-starter
Overview: http://www.laravel-angular.io/#/
which gives you:
and much other stuff, preconfigurated, out of the box..
In short:
CORS is a bad option.
Issue all the requests to the frontend server and make it forward backend-specific requests to the backend server.
In production have all the stuff served exclusively by backend server.
Here's how to achieve that for Java-based frameworks and also for Django: https://stackoverflow.com/a/20680962/1432478
Should look similar for your framework & build system.
