Questions tagged [web]
Web is referred to a network environment without any specific web frameworks used in programming.
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How is fast-scroll simulated?
I've noticed on web and mobile apps, when scrolling down to the bottom of a list with thousands of entries it reaches the bottom instantly but appears to be scrolling through every entry.
How is ...
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Creating a webhook server / sender
I'm now working with an API project, where I'm developing new API endpoints and the final result at the end of the life cycle is as follows: a client should receive updated data out of what it sent to ...
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Data from one microservice to another
How does one service get the data from another service? I will give few examples:
1) Let's say we have two services which need to share the data: User Service and Order Service. Order Service pretty ...
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Why isn't React recognizing the CSS file I've linked in Index.html?
I've built a meme generator using React as an early project to master the basics. I have 6 files in my "mememaker" folder on my desktop, which I created using "create-react-app". They include: index....
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Normalising pagination regardless of the target source
I have a service that fetches data from a target source (not through an API but via scraping) which can change. I want to do pagination so that I return 35 items per page but the target source is 25 ...
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Architecture recommendation for dynamic integration of algorithms/scripts
I am looking for a simple software architecture that is able to evaluate user data using different versions of algorithms.
According to my concept, the user is able to upload tabular data via a Web ...
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Possible microservice based design
Here are the design considerations for a software.
The querying of data should be as fast as possible (reader <1s, writer <2.5s possibly since it also take time to reach the client end web or ...
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How can I modify web content on a mobile browser?
I want to build a small extension for major browsers that modifies the HTML and CSS of certain pages. On a desktop browser, this can be accomplished easily. On mobile browsers, however, content-...
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Http Status Code When Downstream Validation Fails
I have an API that charges for an order. It accepts the orderId and the amount as inputs. Then it makes a '/charge' call to the downstream, which returns a 202. Immediately after this call, it calls a ...
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Order of deletion with web cache overflow
I'm creating an web app who uses a service worker to download its pages in the cache so I can use the web app offline. It is possible that the user doesn't connect to the internet for a while.
I know ...
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REST API: what should PUT do with complex objects?
Let's suppose I have the following objects in my domain:
class Warehouse
{
int Id;
string Address;
Item[] Inventory;
}
class Item
{
int Id;
string Name;
int Price;
int ...
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Possible alternatives to excel as business logic implementation
I just started my internship as a computer science student. The project I'm working on is web based price calculation. Previously, the price calculation have been done in a quite huge excel ...
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Who or what exactly does the “Same Origin Policy” aim to protect
As I understand the "Same Origin Policy" is a browser security feature that aims to protect the user. It prevents scripts to load data from another webserver (typicall with ajax).
So esentially there ...
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Rest API POST with illegal data in parameters: Bad Request or 404?
Take a hypothetical camera company providing an API to manage its users and cameras. Each user owns cameras, and every user of a camera has a role assigned (one of admin, operator, viewer - these are ...
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Should all my asp.net MVC controllers use Web APIs?
The thing that I don't understand is the prioritization between MVC Controllers and Web APIs.
Consider I want to make a website. I can either program to APIs and for the presentational layer, force ...
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How to support anonymous user in web application?
I work for a publishing company that also provides content distribution to their users. In order to access a piece of content the user must be entitled to do so. Traditionally this authorization check ...
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Allowing a user on one page to be able to cause an event on another
I would like to allow a set of users to be able to submit a form on one page, and then it would cause an event to trigger on another page.
For example:
Submit Page:
Includes the form, the user ...
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Separating WebRTC Signal Server and Media (SFU) server
I'm working on a WebRTC VOIP product. I am not using peer-to-peer connections, but instead having clients connect to a SFU which distributes audio to everyone involved in a call.
From my ...
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What are the points of apps like Sketch and Photosbhop when it comes to Web Development?
This may be an obvious question but I really don't understand this so if someone can help me that'd be great.
Basically, I am in the middle of developing an e-commerce app for my database management ...
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Why is XSLT so rarely used on the web? [closed]
XSLT is a mature, widely accepted standard.
It can be used in browsers (even in old IE) and on the server side (nginx has an XSLT module, which can be used from programming languages, of course). Its ...
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How to solve form submission consistency in a web application?
Imagine that you have a form with which you can edit some data, let's call it a Person form. Let's imagine that a user opens up this Person form, receives the current data that is stored in the ...
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What's the current state with Application-Level Profile Semantics? Anyone use them?
Reading books on REST architecture(especially O'Reilly) many times I came across the idea that one should attach data's description into link http header.
Link: <http://example.com/...
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HTTP Methods - what about only using POST for Ajax calls?
You can find whole articles theorizing when you should use what METHOD in what edge case.
It mostly comes down to this; every action needs to be simplified to in just four flavours (GET, POST, PUT, ...
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Are two .net web applications necessary?
We have one single internal website.
Underneath this website (in IIS) we have two web applications:
1-Main web application
2-Web services (created using the visual studio web api project template)
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Displaying periodic simulations via web interface
The gist of my problem is that I'm trying to make a basic simulation for periodically collected data.
More specifically, given the position of a radio antenna, the RF patterns would be simulated ...
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Web GUI for Python scripts
I have several but independent computer vision pipelines which were original planned to run by a user via a cmd (task1 -> script_1.py, task2 -> script_2.py and so on).
All pipelines share some code (...
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Calling service and repository layer from controller
A question came to the team and I'm asking you guys. Our application uses MVC with service layer. But sometimes our service layer just call the repository, without doing nothing
Our questions is: in ...
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Is .NET ASP MVC core suitable for rapid web development?
I currently work for a company who builds web applications for businesses and entrepreneurs, typically 4-6 projects per year. We currently use Laravel/PHP which allows us to build apps relatively ...
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Working with user timezones in the web browser and reports generated in the back-end
I have searched a lot on how to handle timezone in a web app. My application saves all dates as UTC in the database and returns UTC dates in json requests, so javascript proper handle conversions in ...
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Why use Java as a server-side language over an interpreted language?
Web pages are usually tested by refreshing the page, clicking some UI component, then either writing to a debug log or adding some breakpoints in the IDE... in larger applications, unit tests are ...
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Architecture for Online-Offline Web Application
I have a data-driven legacy system (has a Java Swing client and a JavaEE application server) in my workplace, This system uses a single database for querying and modifying data.
Recently we've been ...
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Is it a good idea to have a string.xml to house all strings in a web application
In Android Framework there is a string.xml file that houses all the strings for the application.
This allows for easier re-use and possible internationalization. My question is, is there any ...
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Why bother with server-side form submissions in a SPA?
I am all in favour of progressive enhancement and using server-side rendering when fetching a URL. The age-old discussion gives several advantages, such as improved load time, SEO crawling and ...
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Running expensive computation on single server
I'm building a website that lets a user pay for a service that automatically does some video encoding for them.
Encoding takes several minutes. A naive solution would run each encoding job ...
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Angular template variable reference [closed]
Here is a weird problem in Angular:
<input #pin1 type="password">
<p>You entered: {{pin1.value}}</p>
If you type something in <input>, the <p>'s content will not change ...
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What's the alternative to separate front-end and API? [closed]
In every website I have ever made I usually make the back-end API using NodeJS and run it on a certain port and make the front-end using React and run it on a different port and make requests to my ...
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Saving a website of 30 pages in one piece to view offline (but with CSS and JS in place)?
How to save a website of 10 pages in one piece to view it offline (but with CSS and JS in place)?
I tried to save a webpage to view offline from the browser via Firefox:
File > Save page as > ...
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One central db for a blog for sever websites — the column “app_id”
I have a few blogs/websites hosted on my vps. Recently I've decided to move a db on a single central server/vps because all the blogs have the same structure in terms of code and structure of the db.
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How should I store a list of file names for a webapp?
I want to be able to call on a list of files that are being processed by the server. The problem is, I want to call them on a web app (think React) whenever a user does something. i.e. a list of all ...
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Should a push hold data or make the receiver trigger an API call?
With WebSockets, when clients should be notified that data changed, I've seen two approaches:
the server pushes the data modifications directly within the push;
or the server pushes no data, and the ...
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Data to pre-populate a database kept in text files
Many web application require a seed file -- a file, written in the same language as a web application, where I have data to pre-populate a database. This makes sense.
Nonetheless, I sometimes see ...
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How to implement “viewed: N times” functionality for an article?
How will I have to update "views_count" each time(!) a user loads my page? It will be costly. And I don't need such accuracy when I update "views_count" after a user loads a page.
Then is there any ...
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On an encrypted connection, are packets' destinations visible to a third-party?
Example:
I'm in a coffee shop in Maine, using a VPN whose physical location is in Berlin.
I know that my packets between Maine and Berlin are encrypted, so someone snooping on that coffee shop's ...
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Moving XML data into DB [closed]
Is this a "overkill" design to store XML data in a relational database?
One point is that these web API REST services can later be used by other applications.
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Rewrite legacy code or continue to live with it [duplicate]
Last year I decided to create a web-based SAP Business One extension system consisting of a JavaScript SPA written with Aurelia that communicates with two REST backends written in Go and Java (...
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Stored procedures or ORM in web?
I am working in a Peruvian company that develops desktop accounting software(.net C#).
We have many clients (companies) each customer can create several companies, in addition there is a new database ...
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Why shouldn't you create a custom uri scheme?
In setting up deep linking to android and iOS apps, I've made some use of custom URI schemes, and they work great, especially as a fallback when the mechanism that allows maps from http: fails (as ...
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Multiple language web application - how to implement?
What is the best way to provide a web application in multiple languages?
The focus of my question is not what to think about, but indeed how to do it.
The text in the web application:
text in the ...
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What's the best way to do horizontally scalable file uploads?
In general, how do websites handle file uploads when they scale horizontally? Obviously if you have a load balancer going to 10 application servers, and each application server just saves an upload ...
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Choosing between Web API and DLL reference
I am confused between choosing Web API or DLL reference for a project I am working on and want to understand recommendations for both the approach.
We are having a Web API which exposes an interface ...
