Allowing cors headers to be set for the api so that it can be accessed by ajax calls from Javascript. Cors settings are set from laravel-echo-server.json file. Ran into a situation where I need this and fixed it manually but that's not a long term fix.

Author: Abraham

src/api/http-api.ts

@@ -10,12 +10,21 @@ export class HttpApi {
      * @param  {any} channel
      * @param  {any} express
      */
-    constructor(private io, private channel, private express) { }
+    constructor(private io, private channel, private express, private options) { }
 
     /**
      * Initialize the API.
      */
     init(): void {
+        if(this.options.apiOriginAllow.allowCors){
+            this.express.use( (req, res, next) => {
+                res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', this.options.apiOriginAllow.allowOrigin);
+                res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', this.options.apiOriginAllow.allowMethods);
+                res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', this.options.apiOriginAllow.allowHeaders);
+                next();
+            });
+        }
+
         this.express.get(
             '/apps/:appId/status',
             (req, res) => this.getStatus(req, res)

src/echo-server.ts

@@ -34,7 +34,13 @@ export class EchoServer {
         sslCertPath: '',
         sslKeyPath: '',
         sslCertChainPath: '',
-        sslPassphrase: ''
+        sslPassphrase: '',
+        apiOriginAllow:{
+            allowCors : false,
+            allowOrigin : '',
+            allowMethods : '',
+            allowHeaders : ''
+        }
     };
 
     /**
@@ -115,7 +121,7 @@ export class EchoServer {
             this.channel = new Channel(io, this.options);
             this.redisSub = new RedisSubscriber(this.options);
             this.httpSub = new HttpSubscriber(this.server.express, this.options);
-            this.httpApi = new HttpApi(io, this.channel, this.server.express);
+            this.httpApi = new HttpApi(io, this.channel, this.server.express, this.options);
             this.httpApi.init();
 
             this.onConnect();