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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Why are there so many frameworks for web development? [on hold]
I am currently a Junior back-end developer, I write Java and Scala and I love it.
I really want to get into web development, but it seems like every time I look up some guide, it is really just a ...
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Place Logic In Client Side or Server Side
I'm building a small personal website. Basically, they are 20 short sound files. Clicking a button will play one of those files randomly. Once played, that file will no longer be played. So in total, ...
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Why not use SQL instead of GraphQL?
Recently I learned about GraphQL which claims to be superior to RESTful. However, I started wondering why don't we simply put SQL statements into an HTTP GET request.
For example, in GraphQL I would ...
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How to describe an API-like request that is browser-to-browser?
I'm building a web application that has a feature which allows visitors to directly access resources using URL patterns, for example:
www.site.com/client/[clientID]/orders
www.site.com/client/[...
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Integration with multiple SSO's
Currently, we had a web app that integrated with SSO through Open-Id protocol
Then we got another client that had it's own SSO and need us to integrate with their SSO through SAML protocol so their ...
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Download file stream as it's being generated
Scenario
We are building a UI that allows users to query our data in bulk. The return format is CSV and there is a decent amount of processing that needs to happen, so this processing processing is ...
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Methods of automated frontend tests
I am working on a Rails + React application and investigating frontend testing. Unlike the backend tests this doesn't seem to be a straightforward process with one obvious path. There are a list of ...
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URL friendly id from DDD entity id
I am currently learning DDD and having a hard time wrapping my head about how to implements URL friendly ids for a web application.
From my knowledge, in DDD it is common practice to use UUID as ...
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Recommended manner of installation for an open source web application and api?
I'm currently working on my own open source project.
There are two parts to it at the moment, a .NET core web API and an Angular client side app.
I would like to get your views on installation/setup ...
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Is the way I am doing client-side rendering bad practice? [closed]
I am working on my first web development project, SQLite4Web.
Long story short: SQLite4Web is a web interface for SQLite database files. The user can access their database via /db/{dbToken}, where ...
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How can my distributed web service rate-limit calls to a downstream component?
Context: I own a service that's distributed across VMs, that themselves are distributed across multiple data centers.
Scenario: I'm adding an API that calls a single downstream dependency. This ...
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How can I stop storing user data twice in two separate services
So I have two services that run, each with their own database. S1 stores user information and other primary data. Users also login and signup via S1 endpoints. S2 stores the same user information and ...
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Efficient and readable method for styling of javascript webcomponents
I have a web page that loads a very long list of custom web components, each with their own shadow DOM and a stylesheet shared by all instances.
Originally, I included the stylesheet as css file ...
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If callback function, promises and async/await patterns all can be used to achieve asynchronous behaviour then why don't we stick to one?
As far as I have seen then async/await, callbacks and promises are and can only be used to achieve asynchronous programming. Correct?
So my questions are:
1) Is it correct that the former three is ...
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Do I need to 'deploy' my web project when I can just keep a recent clone of the Master-branch in public_html?
We have git installed on our webserver (via cpanel), but unfortunately no CI- / Deployment-Tools.
Would it be good practice just initialise our repository in /public_html/ and push our local Dev-...
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Where to store automated transactional email templates
Our website needs to send transactional emails to customers each time an event happens on the site such as:
User registration
Email verification
Password resets
Order confirmations
Despatch ...
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How does a party receiving frames under HTTP 2.0 know the order?
The frames are sent in multiplexed fashion and have a stream id. The receiver re arranges frames with the same stream id but what happens if an older frame arrives first?
Is there a concept of ...
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Creating backend system, over API
I recently came across a demand to create a web system (which will be done in PHP, but is for any language), to have the same functionalities of a mobile application already ready. This app has a ...
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Is web development always repetitious, and why isn't this a problem?
I come from a desktop (Winforms/WPF) background were I was the sole developer in the company, and have recently changed jobs to become a part of a team doing web development. I am very much in ...
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Migrating a messaging service to end-to-end encryption
If I have a web app for messaging that started as non-end-to-end encrypted and I want to migrate that same service to be e2ee, how might I deal with old messages? If I'm using something like the ...
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Correct event managment architecture in web application
My team and I are working on a large web application, and I've noticed that we're working in a way which I believe is an incorrect usage of flux (probably from lack of understanding).
We're using ...
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regex for future matching
I am creating dashboard with backend python script which displays data extracted from an email account. Currently, the backend script that parses the various emails operates off of regex matching for ...
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Considerations for delegating long running to CLI from PHP/Apache
I'm working on a web project that executes CLI commands to perform running tasks to spare users from having to wait since PHP/Apache combo cannot (to my understanding) create a separate process for ...
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Architecture for a Reddit-esque website
I'm trying to create a website as a forum similar to Reddit, but on a smaller scale (no comments also). The website will allow users to post a link to a forum. Then they can view a list of New or ...
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How can I manage the state of my application using a dedicated object instead of what React offers?
Most of the react application I've seen are organized with components that, in my opinion, do too much.
They may follow this pattern:
class MyComponent extends Component {
constructor() {
...
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Copyrighted Flash Games and Personal Websites [closed]
I am not sure if this is the right Stack Exchange website, but anyways:
If a flash game was to have a copyright notice, would it be legal for me to post it on my website? This wouldn't be for any ...
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How to handle different pages of a web application having different levels of access to a database model
I am working on an ASP.NET Core application that grabs a model from a database via Entity Framework, and will pass a "subset" of that model to our Angular front end. For example:
I have a list of ...
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Abstracting a set of services behind a common interface
Yay or nay? I have several related but separate services that are to be run in different processes. They execute a particular task unique to the service. Their call signature is similar, but the name ...
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Split large Angular codebase to libraries
I am writing a potentially large web application using Angular 7, where I came across a design problem. My angular applications until now have been relatively small, so there was no problem keeping ...
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Need of advice on server code design [closed]
I want to build a web application in Java on Tomcat server (I am open to change the type of server if needed)
The requirement for me is for the user to be able to login and download sensitive data (...
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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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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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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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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 ...
