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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Wrapping ReactJS UX component library in another layer of abstraction, pros and cons?
There's AntD library with various UX components. Right now I required to wrap all components which I'm using in another layer, to make an abstraction. For example, if I'm using AntForm component I ...
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Intelligent QR Code scanner program [closed]
I want to create a web application that involves scanning a qr code. Every JS library ive found so far only works with a perfect image i.e. the output of a generator not a real world image.
So I want ...
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How to help web users send emails to specified recipients by clicking a button for free? [closed]
Web developer learner here. Group mates and I are doing a web app project in a coding school.
The project is basically a bus tracking app. The add-on is a user evaluation of accuracy of estimated ...
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Use React to parse a file (serverless)
I have a design question and am hoping for some validation. I want to create a 'serverless' web app which will parse a csv file and return an XML file.
I will have a single page react app hosted in ...
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Is it ok to use .Replace(“ ”, “+”) when reading hashes in a querystring?
I am letting users change their password after a reset, by following a link containing hashes of the password and user name (e-mail address). The link can look like this:
www.example.domain/login?...
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Securely allow access to a secure area of a website with PHP
I am making a website that requires a secure area for the website owner to easily upload new content to. Because this is a relatively simple website there is no account system. I just have a URL for ...
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Web/network Architecture with loading indicators
Let's say I'm using a MVC pattern. Here's some pseudocode:
View {
main() {
Controller.callAPI(url);
display(item, position) {
// display item at position
}
}...
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As a developer who runs a small business , can i integrate Quickbooks POS with Shopify
I am a senior developer with C# knowledge, and i have developed many console applications and web applications which integrate with external systems using APIs. now i run my small business and i have ...
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Web application demo mode or Introduction mode
I have a web-app with multiple functionalities and each functionality has multiple workflow/process. For example, Workflow A has Steps A => Step F, Workflow B has Steps A1 => Steps G1 and many more ...
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What to do about compilation errors if ignoring them makes the app run fine?
Updating the libraries in my Angular 8/Electron app produced compilations errors eg, in Electron's menu.ts file, Also, a few of the project external libraries contain @ts-ignore lines, suppressing ...
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Service layer returns DTO to controller but need it to return model for other services
Following this post https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21554977/should-services-always-return-dtos-or-can-they-also-return-domain-models and best practices in Software Arch suggestions by Martin ...
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Does each microservice need its own server running (Tomcat, docker container)
In development I have a Java backend API which I'm running with Tomcat. I'm wanting to wrap the backend in a docker container and deploy to an AWS EC2 instance, and be able to scale up/down.
Does ...
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What's the prefer way to construct a personal blog render system, SSR or prerender or anything else?
I am building a personal blog system. The system is more like a platform, means that not only the admin, but all registered users can post their blogs.
We've decided that using markdown as the blog's ...
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Multitenancy - Tenant provider in microservices architecture
We are now in a process of migrating our server-per-client architecture to a multi-tenancy architecture.
Everything is in place except for one design issue we are having.
We are using a subdomain in ...
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Is creating ViewModels in Web API a bad practice?
So, somebody at work who is twice as experienced than I am, told us that we must not create ViewModel classes within Web API. (We are using Angular for UI)
In his opinion ViewModel is ASP.NET MVC ...
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How to handle frequent update requests to an API which is connected to the database?
In a document editing web application such as Google Docs or Evernote, sync/save has to happen almost instantaneously to make sure data loss is minimal in case of a connection failure or a client ...
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Is it okay to group multiple actions in a single http request
I have a view which displays a list of items related to one thing, it allows creation, removal of, and updates to these items. All changes only persists when the user hits save. Is it okay to group ...
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Improve website speed with better user session management
I have an ecommerce website wherein as soon as a new user comes on website then a new visitorId gets generated for that user in database and that visitorId cookie gets stored in his browser and in ...
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What is the best way to run multiple instances of a web app that requires state to be transferred between instances?
I'm working on a web app where users enter a "room." The state of these rooms is loaded in the server's memory at all times, and is synchronized with the clients via websockets. What's the best way to ...
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Best practice in synchronized form data validations (Web apps - Client-Server)
Here we go again with topic what was asked many times all over internet, but I not found any good enough answer:
What are best practices in making client and server side validations synced?
I was ...
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Turning complex XML (or content tree) into HTML - How to do it (in Java)?
I have a deep object content tree that I transform into a XML using JAXB and a small self written API on top.
But now I want to create a static HTML site that has basically the same content (and ...
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Most efficient way to return results to a web page with a sorting algorithm
Recently, I've been building a search page where the user can input their search criteria and the server side will use a scoring and sorting algorithm to return the 'best' results first. The current ...
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Is this the right way to handle errors using the fetch api?
I am using the fetch api in my handleSubmit function in a React component to post data like this:
handleSubmit(event) {
event.preventDefault();
var error = false;
var { username, password } = this....
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Should I keep my web app front end completely backend agnostic
I am very much an amateur developer. I have written a web app which uses parse-server as a backend.
My question revolves around how agnostic the frontend should be to the backend (parse server)?
For ...
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What layer/object should I add a Helper method to get all Product objects from?
I have a Helper class and a Service class currently and I read this other question about the difference between a service class and a helper class and got confused. A method to get all products in my ...
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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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Jpa Repository save inside a for loop
I have this requirement:
Csv Upload (using opencsv)
Should display if the record is inserted (if it doesn't exist in the db) or updated (if it exists).
Eg.: 5 records inserted 2 records updated.
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Ruby on Rails newbie question, regarding general design for models/controlers for feedback app/ my thinking
I am working on a little project which essentially allows me as the administrator to upload new products to the app (each product would be a video explaining product) which would have its own specific ...
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Connect a web-app to to the back-end message queue
We are currently looking into dividing our back-end in multiple services using a message queue (RabbitMQ). Having a message queue suddenly gives us the possibility to update the web-app freely, but do ...
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Use model instance to access model's manager 'objects'
In the Django documentation it's mentioned that Django managers are accessible only via model classes rather than model instances to enforce table and record level operations. What are table and ...
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Is there a reason to have multiple projects for a single API? [closed]
I entered yesterday to my new job and while browsing their repositories, I noticed they have a project for every resource of a REST API. For example, if they need to add a REST resource called "people"...
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Business logic in a stateless backend when frontend already has all the data
I have a frontend application, that only knows about and communicates with a single backend service. This backend service serves only this frontend app and no-one else. Backend is completely stateless,...
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Why create CSS classes named to match one specific style? (non-semantic class names)
There are a number of CSS frameworks that have a one-to-one correspondence between many of the classes and a single style. For example, in basscss ".inline-block" is defined as "display: inline-block;...
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Adding resources to subresource REST API
I'm trying to build an web API that closely represents a library of books. I currently have the following routes.
GET /api/books
GET /api/books/:bookID
GET /api/libraries
POST /api/libraries
This ...
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Taking over a project. Should I scrap and rebuild? [closed]
I'm taking over an Opencart solution for a client. This is for my capstone at College. I'm to create a simple CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software that will live as a single page ...
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Preferred MIME type of S-expression in `HTTP_ACCEPT` header?
NancyFX has Content Negotiation feature that I can write additional serialization adapter for S-expression by implementing IResponseProcessor interface.
And there is a problem... S-expression's MIME ...
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Potential Solutions to loading Javascript classes unknown at run time
I'm looking for some advice or potential options for loading javascript files in real time long after the DOM has fully loaded. Those javascript files need to be sent over a WebSocket connection, and ...
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Best practice for re-using single view file for multiple pages with slightly different content
If you have a view file which you want to re-use for different pages which have, for example, slightly different page headings, is there a 'best approach' of the three below? (Considering separation ...
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Building Client Specific Application on Top of Standard Application
I have a standard application and in this case, it is an Accounting ASP Net MVC application. Now, I have a new client that has their own specific requirements like other fields and some custom ...
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Route requests based on path url to the same server which uses web sockets when implementing a load balancer
I have an online whiteboard where users connect to the same room depending on the last part of the url where the room name is present. The urls are dynamic and is created per new room.
Eg: https://......
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At what point is having a static class with utility methods better than having an injectable service?
I have a pretty general question about the design of Angular web applications. I'm a big fan of writing services. Sometimes I write services that have only utility methods that don't require state at ...
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User friendly webapp configuration
I'm planning to develop a web application that would run on-premise at the customer. I'm quite unsure about the whole process of setting up the site in a user-friendly way, but mostly disturbed by the ...
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When user re-navigates to another page current process is stopped. Nginx-Gunicorn-django
I am using Nginx with gunicorn to host my Django app. In development I used the inbuilt python server to host my django app.(manage.py runserver). One of my definition in views.py inputs multiple apks(...
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Why are there so many frameworks for web development? [closed]
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
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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 ...
