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What Is the Industry Standard of Specifying APIs for Frontend-Backend Handshake?

I am somewhat new to web development and maybe this question belongs to stackoverflow, but there is a human-interaction component here. Here is the scenario. I am serving some neural network models ...
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For a very long lived PHP web application project, is custom (self made) framework better than (open source) popular frameworks?

For a project that's going to live/used/maintained by the developer for a very long time (ex: 20-50 year); Is custom (self made) framework better than (open source) popular frameworks? Basically my ...
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Modernizing legacy application

We have an application that has served us and our clients well from some 20 years now. Pretty good track record but it's obviously showing it's age in some areas. We are looking for advise and ...
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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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Handling field masks on the statically typed client

Let's say I have a REST API, that has the ability to provide field mask (i.e. the API can return M out of N attributes where M is a subset of N). If a statically typed client (example: one that's ...
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mod_rewrite should I define a url prefix for assets?

I am working on a little framework where I have this directory tree: project/ |--- ... (directories unrelated to the question) |--- public/ | |--- index.php .htaccess The .htaccess sends every ...
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How can I do to use Angular 5/6 for frontend and Codeigniter 3 for backend in the same web app?

I have this project I want to do, using Angular 5/6 for frontend and Codeigniter 3 for backend. The problem is that I don't know how to combine the two, and all the tutorials I looked were using ...
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Am I using the right frameworks effectively?

I am working on a large scale application that has both a web portal and a mobile application so therefore I need to develop an API.. I have decided to go with the following structure:- Sailsjs (...
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How can I integrate views with controller state transparently?

In a MVC application, integration between controller and views are often a matter of: class HelloController { public function sayHello(Request $request) { return new Response($this->...
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Is Angular 2 ready for production use or should I use AngularJS 1? [closed]

I want to learn AngularJS but on the website I see a button with the text Try the new Angular 2. Is Angular 2 ready for production use or should I learn and use AngularJS 1?
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Why are the smart folks who write and adopt react.js okay with the way markup is tightly-coupled/buried inside Javascript?

Quite a while ago there was a concerted trend in the industry to move towards adopting templating to separate markup from logic, or something like that. The result was much more pleasing to the eye ...
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My web app uses ASP, but does-it need it?

I’m relatively new to web development, and I’m amazed at the variety of new concepts in the field. I could probably use some help to synthetize. I have to deal with is a backend written in Delphi, ...
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Is there something more behind MVC in web develop frameworks [closed]

I just started my career in the web development about two months ago. During the two months, I wrote one web service in php Symfony2, get involed investigation of one project written in Python Flask ...
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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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Literal strings vs. object properties in JavaScript

JavaScript libraries in the same space (UI widgets) use two different approaches for instantiating components: Literal strings to specify types, and inlining as much as possible, for example: var ...
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Separating AngularJs and Django into individual Apps?

I am building a web application using AngularJs and our web server is built in Python Django Rest Framework. I would like to have the two projects separated and not coupled. In my current setup the ...
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Event Driven Objects/Framework on the Web [closed]

I am a desktop developer moving to web development. The guys who I am working with use procedural PHP, and coming from an event driven, objectified perspective (using WPF and C#.Net) I am completely ...
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What concrete steps can I take to assess PHP framework(s) without having to go to the extent of getting to know each framework in intimate detail? [duplicate]

This question is about what methodology to follow when evaluating one or more PHP frameworks to see which one would suit the needs of my project best. In other words, given the time pressures that ...
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Using different DB Connections for different user groups in a web framework

Database designers building enterprise systems usually assign different sets of privileges to different users of DBMS. They can be as granular as needed. However, in my experience, web frameworks ...
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How should I connect to my php framework to use methods written in the framework, in a framework agnostic environment?

My company runs 2 websites, a public facing website for clients, and an employee intranet. The intranet is used as a backend for employees to edit and maintain various parts of the public website. ...
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What does bootstrapping mean in the context of Laravel? [closed]

I see 'the bootstrap process' mentioned in Dayle Rees Laravel tutorial "Code Bright" but no explanation of what it actually means. The Wikipedia definitions on Bootstrapping in computing don't seem to ...
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Why do JavaScript frameworks/libraries have functions which already exist in pure JavaScript?

I wonder why frameworks/libraries have their own helpers although they exist natively already. Let's take jQuery and AngularJS. They have their own each iterator functions: jQuery.each() angular....
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Corporate website design [closed]

We are redesigning our corporate website with the following functions: we want to give the marketing users flexibility and freedom to add new static pages, change the static pages or contents of ...
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Internal-use websites: Is there a compelling case against SQLite?

Many web frameworks, such as Flask or Django use SQLite as their default database. SQLite is compelling because it's included in python, and administrative overhead is pretty low. However, most high ...
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When does one NOT need to use queues in an application?

I've been developing an application using the Laravel Framework & have been exposed to the idea of queues for the first time. There are a multitude of tutorials & articles about using queues &...
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What would be the market life of a JVM based software framework? [closed]

I saw how Struts 1 lasted from 2000 to 2013. I hear that people are moving from Struts 2 to Spring. But for a project that may need to be maintained for a decade or two, would it be advisable to opt ...
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Why aren't web frameworks simple, elegant and fun like programming languages? [closed]

When I think of pretty much any programming language - like C, C++, PHP, SQL, JavaScript, Python, ActionScript, Haskell, Lua, Lisp, Java, etc - I'm like awesome I would love to develop a computer ...
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Do we need even more web frameworks in C# now that async await is here

Developing endless frameworks for web application, websites and web services is always great fun. It's one of the richest areas where you have 100 different ways of achieving pretty much the same ...
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Is PHP actually a web framework? [closed]

I was reading an article/interview (Language War: PHP vs. Ruby (by Jeffrey Way; Mar 2011)) by a developer for Envato using Ruby. He says, "PHP is a web framework disguised as a language." He didn't ...
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Migrating Web based projects from Java to PHP

At our work place after hours of coding, testing and QA we have successfully added a couple of software tools in our product line. We specialize in web based software solutions so in order to tap on ...
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Suggested Web Application Framework and Database for Enterprise, “Big-Data” App?

I have a web application that I have been developing for a small group within my company over the past few years, using Pipeline Pilot (plus jQuery and Python scripting) for web development and back-...
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PHP Framework for RESTful Web Service [closed]

I have been going round in circles with this question for days - which is the best PHP framework to use to create a RESTful Web service? I've trawled the web for info and have come across three main ...
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REST API rule about tunneling

Just read this in the REST API Rulebook: GET and POST must not be used to tunnel other request methods. Tunneling refers to any abuse of HTTP that masks or misrepresents a message’s intent and ...
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The C++ web stack, is there one?

Java would be jsps and servlets (or a framework such as Spring) running on the JVM and tomcat (or glassfish etc). C# would be asp and C# running on dot.net framework and IIS ? (I have no experience ...
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Should I still use a web application framework? [closed]

I'm about to make a simple web application with just image uploading and user management. I'm browsing through several web app frameworks I could use yet I'm still thinking if I should still make use ...
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Where should "display functions" live in an MVC web app?

I'm using the Yii Framework which is an MVC php framework that is pretty similar to your standard web-based MVC framework. I want to display the related data from a many-to-many table as a list of ...
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Web Frameworks caring about persistence?

I have noticed that Play! Framework encompasses persistence strategy (like JPA etc...) Why would a web framework care about persistence ?! Indeed, this would be the job of the server-sides ...
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Rush to client-side in web development

In the past few months, I recognized a big excitement about client-side scripting in web development. But while server-side technologies are mature, stable and well accepted by backend-developers, ...
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Moving from PHP to Python - framework considerations

As a long time PHP developer, I am now starting to explore the Python world. I have narrowed the choice of framework down to Django and Pyramid, probably no big surprise there. I have played a bit ...
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How to choose a server side language / framework [closed]

I am trying to come up with a list / ranking system on determining which server language to choose for a particular website. Assume that familiarity with a certain language is not important and the ...
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Given an idea for an application, how should I decide which web technologies to use? [closed]

Background: I'm an experienced Java developer, know basic Javascript, HTML, and CSS (and find it easy to figure out how to do something), and have a little experience in Python. I've seen Ruby ...
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When to use shared libraries for a web framework?

tl;dr: I've found myself hosting a bunch of sites running on the same web framework (symfony 1.4). Would it be helpful if I moved all of the shared library code into the same directory and shared it ...
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How to develop front end (UI) for my Django website

I am learning Django and new to web development. Please excuse me if you find this question too dumb. So, I am creating a Facebook application using Django which I would like to host in Google App ...
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Understanding blocking and non-blocking frameworks

Could someone help me understand what is the difference between blocking and non-blocking frameworks? So far, I understand that when request comes to a blocking framework it creates new thread for ...
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how to choose a web framework and javascript library? [closed]

I've been procrastinating learning some framework for web apps w/ some library for AJAX, something like django with prototype, or turbogears with mootools, or zeta components with dojo, grok, jquery, ...
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Why is Twitto not secure?

I've come across Twitto, which basically is a web framework that fits in a tweet. It is so short that I can post the code here : require __DIR__.'/c.php'; if (!is_callable($c = @$_GET['c'] ?: ...
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How do I make sense of the javascript frameworks explosion ? Should I learn them all? [closed]

For a beginner web developer who is still doing web development the conventional way (PHP/J2EE/Struts on server side, HTML/CSS/Javascript on client side), I was bowled over by the recent blog post on ...
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Would it make more sense to use a framework to build an commerce site, or build it from the ground up?

Keep in mind, I know PHP as I learned it for this specific project. Also, I thought about just using magento, but as I went through it, I realized I would have to learn their framework. I am very ...
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Should web browsers include popular web framework libraries?

What reasons are there for web browsers to not have a library of popular web frameworks. For example if a web page included jQuery, why shouldn't the browser have it's own static version, which is ...
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web content management system [closed]

Quite a few of my friends want to have their own personal website to showcase their talents. However, they don't want to deal with such technical things as writing html and managing web server. ...
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