Using Yeoman with an MVC backend framework

[farzher]

This sounds outside the scope of yeoman, but I think it's relevant to anyone making a non-static website.

I'm using Laravel, a PHP framework. How am I supposed to set this up with a yo angular single page application?

I tried doing yo angular in Laravel's public folder (the documentRoot) but then I have /app and /dist and all kinds of crap in there. Also, css and js and compiled into a .tmp folder. Maybe I have to rewrite the gruntfile.js, but idk, it's just a mess. grunt server and grunt test would probably be impossible to use too because index.html wouldn't exist, it would be a view in my MVC framework.

So, I'm thinking I should just keep them separate? I'll host my angular app somewhere and have my Laravel framework just act as a RESTful API hosted somewhere else? I tried this and got Access-Control-Allow-Origin errors when trying to make ajax requests to my Laravel server; but maybe that's easier to deal with.

Any recommended way of doing this? Or is yeoman not designed for this?

[sindresorhus]

So, I'm thinking I should just keep them separate?

Yup, that is the recommended practise.

[farzher]

Sounds good, thank you.

Now I just have to figure out this Access-Control-Allow-Origin thing that's not letting me ajax a different domain.

[sindresorhus]

http://stackoverflow.com/a/14623169/64949