JSON response with message

Hello,

I work on an existing project (Laravel / Vue) in API mode. For now the controller methods return only a single value.

$data = 'Some data';
return response()->json($data);

If I modify the returned value in an array, it won't work any more with the frontend.

$data = 'Some data';
return response()->json(['data' => $data]);

Is there a possibility to return both at the same time a simple value and in addition a key / value pair ?

Perhaps a single value and via another way a message ?

$data = 'Some data';
return response()->json([$data])->withMessage('message'); // it won't work, but is there a possibility to do something like this ? I don't have tried it but not seen in the documentation

I think that I already have the answer, but perhaps there is a solution I don't know.

Thanks for your help.

Vincent