Questions tagged [web-development]
Web development is a broad term for the work involved in developing a web site for the World Wide Web or an intranet.
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Token-based registeration
I'm trying to create a system where only users with valid token can register, you may think of the token as String which allow the user to register in my system.
The token should cover
Status: (...
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Clearing up misconceptions about a Flask backend and client-side rendering
I am building a website and along the way I have come across a lot of things I didn't know about and was hoping to get some help in understanding some of them.
I started building a website using ...
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What architecure design is used to create a virtual queue?
What architecure design is used to create a virtual queue?
A virtual queue, virtual waiting room or a virtual line can be described as:
An online queue system which redirects excess end-users to ...
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Correct way to serve file that's in node_modules
Say I have this structure:
project/
node_modules/
xxx/
asset.js
index.html
app.js
and in app.js I have:
const express = require('express');
const app = express();...
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When designing a web application with Vue.js and ASP.NET Core, is ASP.NET solely for the API?
When creating a web application from scratch with ASP.NET MVC Core (using Visual Studio 2017) and using Vue.js, is the MVC Core part of the application solely for the API? What other function would ...
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Best practice for integration test a web form
I have a web application in ruby on rails, that is mainly a big multi-step form that insert data into a db.
I want to make integration test to verify all the inserted data is correctly saved.
My idea ...
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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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Multi-client web-app structure [duplicate]
I'm starting a new web application, and I'm considering how to design it for multiple clients. Each client would have a completely separate interface on a different subdomain, but this can be hard to ...
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How to maintain a web application for different clients with different UI and several customized functions?
We have an web application that mvc architecture and written in php. This application is used by different client that need different UI and also several module customization. This application is ...
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An approach to send the contents of a file on the server to the client in real-time
I have a relatively simple front in good ol' JQuery, that makes a POST Request to a Flask Python web server, that runs a Python script using the subprocess module. Here's the whole route for ...
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controlling multiple components in web application
In my small web application (about 3k lines) my UI is composed of lots of buttons, toolbars, selection boxes, tables etc. Where each action affects the state of multiple UI elements.
Do you ...
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My local server is getting close to maximum resources, I want to add another server.
So, first let me explain my current setup. I have an unmanaged ethernet switch which is connected to my intel nuc (server A) and an external had drive.
Server A is running:
Ubuntu
Docker
Gitlab ...
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Is it okay to display/embed ID of an entity in the html of a page?
If I display user_id that represents each unique user in the db as an atrribute in an HTML element, is that good practice? Because I need the reference to the user if I want to perform an action on ...
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Fear of web-app not being “future-proof”
I'm a web developer of a small, local SaaS web application. It currently has about a half-dozen clients.
As I continue to design the application, it's become increasingly harder for me to convince ...
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How to process a login form data?
I have created a login form for my website, but the issue is how to process the data provided in the form by the uses.
You see, I can't just write a basic function like this one -
myfunction(){
if(...
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Request for a service that takes a long time to execute
I'd like to train neural networks by making HTTP requests, which in turn train the model. Now, this might take a while with fetching data, processing, training and evaluating the network. I was ...
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Data sharing between web app components
If I have several interactive components (grids, tables, graphs, dropdowns, autocomplete inputs, etc.) that display processed data from the same "global database" (everything resides on the client ...
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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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Some questions on mobile push notification?
I need to work on android mobile push notification. I have recently gone through some of the tutorial on google. I would like to summarize
the my understanding first
Developer registers the app with ...
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In which layer should a microservice should send a message to another microservice
In our monolith application, the piece of code that used to handle sending SMSes and emails was written in our business layer. Now the responsibility of sending emails and SMSes is handled by a ...
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What should I do when being assigned to a project which relies on a technology I don't know? [closed]
I just graduated from college and got my very first job. I start my first day tomorrow and my boss just told me that I am going to work on a project to build a Spring Boot application.
I am ...
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Architecture layout for SPA application
I have an existing SPA application where api calls from user browser are forwarded to application server hosted separately. My application server have all business logic and repository to connect to ...
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how can a web server know all the tabs served by it (for the same session) in the same browser?
This is in the context of my bismon program (GPLv3+, on github, still unreleased, alpha-stage), which is mostly a single-page web application (with a garbage collected DSL in it) which uses the ...
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Securing e-commerce administrator panel with a VPN
I am developing the back-end of an e-commerce system, which has customer and administrator type accounts. These two roles do not overlap, administrators are there to do the back office work, while ...
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DDD with web application - How to avoid rule duplication?
Imagine we have a simple rule:
A member must be at least 18 years old to join.
Imagine we have a C# class for Member and it is our domain model. The rule is enforced in this class.
Now we create ...
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How to store blog post in database - React & GraphQL
I am building travel blog using React as frontend Javascript framework along with GraphQL. I am doing this project by myself as a pilot test and I am currently in a phase of translating photoshop ...
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Web application with relational database - best practice?
I am currently designing a web application which is pretty similar to Twitter but with some unique features for my company.
Technologies are Vue2, Spark framework and PostgreSQL.
I am trying to ...
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Web Crawling Form Help Needed [closed]
If I have a form built on my website. How can I get that form 1 to plugin results into another websites form 2 and extract information to display on my website?
For example, if I wanted to create a ...
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Using SPA ( Single-page-application) in production with separate configuration file/module
Problem statement
dev team
Dev team wants to pre-build the SPA's (Angular App & React App) and provide single package containing JS, CSS, & HTML file. There's no server-side rendering / lazy ...
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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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Is there a need to add web sockets for push notifications
Currently we have an application that, upon certain events, will send notifications to users. We use SQS to handle the actual delivery of the notifications.
As an example, when a user registers an ...
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Is it a good practice to always apply CSS styles to the innermost nested element? [closed]
Let's say you want to center the text here:
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="content">
<p class="body">
GUCCI GANG, GUCCI GANG, GUCCI GANG, GUCCI GANG, ...
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How can I avoid using global variables in simple Javascript SPA?
To learn Javascript I am building a simple Single-Page Application. It is a basic slideshow app that needs only to process some basic settings and execute some behaviors. The basic structure of my ...
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Java web development
I started to develop web applications not so long ago, and therefore there are a lot of unknown things in this field for me. My question concerns web development using the Java language. Assume that ...
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how to provide search feature on website with ASP.net application
I have an old website (https://www.recordsforliving.com/) with a search feature. Up until recently, it was running on Windows 2012 server, and used Microsoft Index Server, and
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OleDbConnection ...
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How to create a router-like configuration page on Raspberry PI?
We have a Raspberry PI (with raspbian OS) that runs some application, this application uses a local configuration file that contains some data like username, password, server url etc. We will provide ...
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Is my approach to dynamically populating web content ok?
I'm porting my JavaFX application to a web based version, which I'm new to. In my web app the user can search the server database for records.
At present I've chosen to present the records in a ...
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Separating API server from HTTP server is really worth to have?
First of all, I would like to tell you guys to understand my English skill even if it's miserable to read it. I'm really trying to learn English nowadays.
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I'm currently developing a web community ...
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Developing and debugging microservices locally
The use case:
I am working on a microservice based architecture and I am wondering how I am supposed to debug a microservice (with my IDE attached to it) on my local machine where I develop it.
The ...
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API Architecture: Should the API update the database on it's own? Or should there be another service to tell it to update the database?
I am working on a project which has a requirement to records in the database every day. I currently have a REST API which does the usual CRUD functions. Should I create a service within the ...
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Mobile app for existing responsive web app?
I have an existing enterprise application that lives on a lamp stack (not single page app). All html is responsive using twitter bootstrap. The question of sending push notifications to mobile devices ...
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How would the customer edit the website you've sold to him?
I am pretty sure that in one month, I can create a website semi to professional with really good design, functionality and security. I have made quite a few researches and I have found websites where ...
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How are site-creation services built?
I have always wondered how sites like Blogger, Wordpress.com, Forumotion, Jcink or Forumatic (shut down) work but I can't seem to grasp an idea about how they're internally made.
At first sight they ...
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Why is one way data flow (eg. React, Vue, Angular) faster than two way data binding with dirty checking?
I understand that two way data binding can be expensive and slow. For example, imagine a toy grocery list app that lets you list grocery items and their prices, and shows you the sum of the prices (...
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How does the concept of http middleware differ from events?
I've been thinking about the most optimal way to implement middleware in my web application and it got me thinking, how is middleware any different from events?
Let's say that before a controller ...
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pixels aside, how to cross the uncanny valley of hybrid apps? (performance)
I see the top drawbacks of hybrid (webview/dom) apps, compared to native,
as the following, in order
time to startup/launch
smooth frame rates (no jank)
responsiveness to input, instantaneous
are ...
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How far do you go in server-side validation of POST/GET requests?
Our application had a few vulnerabilities detected by AppScan and we had to add server-side validation to catch SQL injection attempts.
But my question is, how far do you go in server-side ...
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How can a web app work correctly when Internet connection is lost for some hours?
Our team wants to design a Web-Based retail pharmacy management system. A web based solution is good because no user installations are needed.
Some of the data fetched from central database are read-...
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Performance on highly filterable web pages
In our application we have a page were we list our entities with many options to filter and to search. Over time this page got slower and slower especially for large datasets, so we thought about how ...
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How to make the most out of a beginner-level development team?
I now find myself in a scenario, mentoring no more than 8 beginner-level developers and tasked with the development of a reasonably complex SPA website. It is to be developed using React (which the ...
