How to force Laravel to send correct headers for CORS?

Question

CORS

I tried https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-cors/ - but it somehow works strangely, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't work, and I can't grasp what it depends on, I crashed it for two hours.
Tried to send headers directly. For example:

return response()->json(['response' => 'no query given'])
        ->header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*')
        ->header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS');

but it still writes to the browser console

No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header

Despite the fact that Postman sees and shows these headers. Chrome doesn't see them. How can this be?
In general, some kind of garbage :(
Is there a 100% method to somehow do this and already forget about this CORS as a bad dream? :D
Thanks.

Answer 1

barryvdh/laravel-cors solves this 100% out of the box, you don't even need to configure anything.
If it doesn't help, then you did something wrong.
the full text of the error?
What version of laravel?
ServiceProvider registered if the version is old?
middleware from laravel-cors added to your routes?
What is laravel-cors config?
Did you create it at all? Did they change?

Answer 2

These headers must be sent in response to the options method.