Grunt serve + PHP?

Question

I\'m starting my first project with yo + grunt + angular.js.
I have a service which needs to read some data from my server; I built it using angular $http service. I\'ve als

Answer 1

Not receiving a satisfactory answer, after thinking quite a bit about the issue myself, I provide hereafter my conclusions:

• Development
  
  • Use a "production-like" server (Apache, lighttpd, ...) to serve real PHP pages.
    Use absolute urls with $http or $request to access that server (distinct from Grunt, which serves angular.js pages). The urls will be easily configurable, to require only a minimum work (and possible errors) to switch to production.
  • In PHP scripts, before producing (JSON) output, always output a proper "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" header; the value of the directive will also be easily configurable.

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• Production
  
  • Deploy angular.js app to the same server where PHP is deployed.
  • Change the urls, and make them relative, since now they share the same origin with client-side scripts.
  • Change the "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" header, to allow only local requests (or possibly remove that header at all...).