Questions tagged [client-side]
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Translation Server-side vs. Client-side when having the same locales files
I'm currently working on a Turborepo project (monorepo architecture) and I have managed t share my locales files to both back-end and front-end parts.
This means I share the exact same keys across ...
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Should I hide admin functionality code in Client Side Rendering App?
I'm starting a new project in which we will use Client Side Rendering for the frontend. This is my first time working with this kind of technology and I was wondering which would be the best approach ...
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How do client-side libraries prevent spoofing? [closed]
I'm looking at Segment's documentation right now and they have something called a "write key" that you include in your client-side JavaScript in order to send analytics data to the backend. ...
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How to measure the benefit of replacing big parts of the HTML DOM vs doing a new fresh request?
I am looking for a method to measure the time difference between:
the time it takes to load and completely reach TTI for example.com/page-B given that example.com/page-A is loaded.
the time it takes ...
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Is there a canonical definition of SPA or is SPA a broadly agreed-on architecture with fuzzy edges? [closed]
Is there a canonical definition of SPA which would exclude the software architecture model described below?
I'm working on an app with a new web-architecture model (new to me, at any rate) which has ...
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How to design a statically typed REST API client?
Last time I used I created a REST API client in .NET I used exceptions to represent status codes which don't indicate success. (404 was returning null). It's been quite some time since then and my ...
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Angular Folder directory approach
I know the proper folder structure for an Angular application should be like this:
/app
/core module
/components
/services
/feature module
/components
/services
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Server side rendering of third party updated html components
Say I am wanting to include a third party HTML component in my site...
I know that I can simply include a <script> tag to pull in the component on the client's side; however because I do not ...
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Appropriate way to organize dependency with external class avoiding high coupling
I was design a server communication module of native application.
As starting point for now I have 3 classes:
HttpSession — class which contain all necessary data for sending requests.
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Client-side XHR request, which IP does the endpoint read?
Assume a Javascript plugin, for a developer, that's included on their website.
<script src="https://external.com/plugin.js"></script>
The plugin makes a XHR request to a 3rd party ...
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Is there a secure way to check previous passwords purely on the client-side?
We have a requirement for a security audit that our password policy must disallow the re-use of a previous password from the last 4 used passwords.
We can accomplish this fairly easily by making a ...
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How to implement a CLI interaction with running java programm? [closed]
I would like your tipps about implemening a command line interface
to interact with a running java application.
Example:
The Java Application is a webserver and a cli-client should interact with it:
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Why does YouTube save Restricted Content filter locally?
I was scrolling down on my YouTube Homepage and found that beside the filter marked Restricted Content, a point mentioned that the setting of this filter applies to this browser only. Here's the ...
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Rendering custom markdown format: client side or server side?
I am working on a project on both iOS/Android/macOS/Linux (Windows is optional, and surely no website version). There are a lot of related webpage-like data and the team decided to store the data in a ...
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How can I prevent a user from editing my code in their browser?
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I'm designing a Node.JS application (more like a full website). The app will send five JavaScript files and will have <script> tags linking them together.
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How can I prevent ...
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Single-Page vs Multi-Page and Client-Side vs Server-Side
I am currently researching the benefits and disadvantages of SPA (Single-Page Applications) vs MPA (Multi-Page Applications).
Having established that MPA is more suitable for my project, I proceeded ...
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API responsibilities vs Client responsibilities (Characteristics of returned data)
I have a hard time trying to find a 'rule of thumb' to follow when dictating certain responsibilities to either the API, or the client-side code base.
For instance, if I know a dataset should be ...
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Benefits of using a JS Framework
I am starting a new project and trying to decide if I should use a Javascript framework (like vue.js or react) and create a Ruby on Rails API, or use Ruby on Rails to server-side render pages and ...
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Best way to do Client side authorization for a single page JavaScript application?
I already have a solid back-end permissions authorization (ie. admin can perform an action, a normal user cannot perform an action).
However, I'm wondering if there is a better way to do a frontend ...
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Is it a good practice to log client side errors to a file
I basically want to know if it is considered a good practice to persist the errors that happen on the client side of a web application (typescript/angular for example) by logging them to files?
Or if ...
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Mixing JavaScript and server-side scripting
I see code like this sometimes (mixed PHP and JS in this case, but could be any server-side language):
<script>
var data = <?php echo $bigDataStructure ?>;
// then lots more pure js ...
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Hide Away Technical Abstraction of an Object from Users without needing Static Rules
I'm an owner of some Product, where I have different clients who use that product, and the attributes of that product alter the experience that my clients have on my page.
For an example, lets say ...
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How do services that rely on client-side access to an API or data consumption endpoint prevent abuse?
For example, web application monitoring services like New Relic RUM or Bucky use JavaScript to collect data on a user's session and eventually send that data back to an endpoint. For New Relic, the ...
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Misunderstanding of viewmodels relations on client and server side
I have basic viewmodel on server-side, let it be on C# language and ASP.NET Core server-side, for example:
public class BookViewModel
{
public string Id { get; set; }
public string Name { ...
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Decision that drives use of a Front Technology like Javascript for server side tasks
I have created a Project in Java which helps generate HTML's from an Excel Sheet & a template file. I am trying to understand, if I want external users to use this facility from an external ...
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How to draw high-resolution images on client-side?
Any libraries, API, or tips are welcome. I am trying to draw Landsat 8 images using Canvas utility of Javascript on my browser. The grayscale reflectance values for Landsat 8 bands are from minimum -...
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Will Web Components in HTML Add Too Much Complexity? [closed]
The way I've been accustomed to User Interfaces is to see everything as a div. Where a div is essentially a box and they can be stylized in CSS.
<div class='container'>
<div class='...
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Is client-side validation really all that important, always? [duplicate]
Through the years I've worked in web development it's been ingrained in me that client-side validation is absolutely and completely necessary in all web applications. Seems to me like all the people ...
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How to stop someone from calling URL on server
I am very new to web development and am trying to create a website using client/server model. From what I understand, the front-end (client-side) calls URLs specified on the server to get information. ...
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How to filter RSS feed results, according to a DOM element in its page content?
I've a "RSS feed", want to filter its results according to a DOM element in its content!
So, this is the mission I'm looking forward to do:
Monitor a "RSS feed" continuously.
If new RSS elements ...
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Connect to MS SQL database from client side [closed]
I had a software that was written on VB .Net and used Crystal Report to print out reports. It was a pain to maintain in my case, so I want to move the report to webpage version.
I did some ...
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Updating a video's view count. Should this happen client-side or server-side?
I built an iOS app similar to Vine, where a user can scroll a feed of videos that auto play. All of these video have a View_Count field in the backend to keep track of how many times the video has ...
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Is there any reason not to make a webapp be client-side only?
I recently started writing a path-finding algorithm simulation application in python.
It takes user inputs, randomly generates a 2d graph, and shows displays the simulation via GUI.
Now, what I ...
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Should I use an open source client framework or create my own?
I am working at a medium sized internet company, and I was handed the task of implementing the framework for our sites rebranding.
It's quite an old (and ugly) site, and we want to update its look ...
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Application components dependency and decoupling
In my client application I have two major components:
Core: wrapper that handles everything about running the actual application
NetworkClient: A layer that takes care of communicating (receiving/...
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Is it possible to protect client side algorithms 100%? [duplicate]
If you had a pretty novel idea that involved a new algorithm. Like lets say you were the first person to think of orbitz.com or kayak.com (travel sites) and you were able to and wanted to implement ...
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Is it reasonable to have grunt/gulp build phases in javascript dev environment
Nowdays it's goes to be very fancy to have grunt/gulp build phases who concatenate and minify and organize javascript code.
And I agree that this is important for production.
But as a developer, I ...
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Relatively large data on client side in web application
We are discussing on building a web application where (as per clients requirement), there will be relatively large data (60,000 items) to be shown as tree view.
Let's assume each item is string of ...
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Handle server-side/client-side when for showing missing information as placeholders
I have a database table which stores Incident details. Each Incident can have an image saved for it. There are some Incidents which will not have an image for it.
I have an API which pulls the image ...
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Balancing between performance, convenience & separation
Consider a web application that works with somewhat sensitive data on reliable, high performance clients.
The data needs to be processed and manipulated. So far I have learned that when possible, ...
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Client-side coding: How to prevent malicious use?
Over the last few years, the trend for client-side (browser) applications has really taken off.
For my latest project, I have decided to try and move with the times and write a client-side ...
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Pattern that prevents events to trigger themselves
I am working at the client-side part of a web application, that is responsible for getting answers from users for specific questions and storing and restoring them from the database (or cookies) and I ...
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Ensuring submitted hiscores are not fake
I have a small game that I would like to keep track og global hiscores for.
The basic is simple: username and score is submitted to a server for storage and later polling. However how do I ensure that ...
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Dividing responsibilities between client and server
I'm working on a Web app that uses node.js on the server and AngularJS on the client. I'm new to Angular, but enables writing client-side applications that can be more self-contained than some other ...
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Send mapped data from server-side code to client-side code
I'm developing a application based on two technologies: ASP.net (SharePoint) and JavaScript.
I use server-side code for retrieve data from database and manipulate it whereas I use client-side code ...
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Options for client-side encryption of local web databases
My scenario is as follows:
Web application, run from the browser, designed for mobile devices.
Uses WebSQL storage which may contain sensitive
data.
Uses Application Cache to enable offline use where ...
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How can I interact with a client-side sound device through a web application?
I'm trying to find something that will allow a web application to analyze the line or microphone input from a client and transmit that data to the server. I've looked briefly at WebRTC and, although I ...
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JSF problems due to shared server-side state
On it's latest technology radar, the guys at ThoughtWorks recommended avoiding JSF because it's attempt to create statefulness over HTTP ends up "causing a whole host of problems involving shared ...
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Are (mostly) client-side JavaScript web apps slower or less efficient?
I am in the midst of writing a web application for work. Everything is from scratch. I have been a PHP programmer for about 13 years, Node.js programmer for the past 2 years, and have no shortage of ...
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To MVC or not MVC, that is the question
Originally, I started off doing jQuery plugins, then moved onto Backbone.js applications, then been experimenting with MicroJS MVC modules, but these days I'm even wondering if there is any need for ...
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