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Is there any reason not to go directly from client-side Javascript to a database? [duplicate]
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Writing Web “server less” applications
So, let's say I'm going to build a Stack Exchange clone and I decide to use something like CouchDB as my backend store. If I use ...
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Moving all UI logic to Client Side?
Our team originally consisted of mostly server side developers with minimum expertise in Javascript.
In ASP.NET we used to write a lot of UI logic in code-behind or more recently through controllers ...
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Backbone/JQuery, ExtJs 4… is there something else worth looking?
Im currently evaluating a front-end architecture for a big app that will be developed by a team of about 6 developers + 1 web designer so that said, having a robust SVN friendly architecture is a ...
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Why make the login page to a single page application a separate page?
I am wondering why it seems to be popular to have the login page of a SPA be a separate page that is not page of the SPA (as in loaded and send data through ajax requests)?
I only thing I can think ...
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How would you represent an object that can be of multiple types, when storing it as a document in MongoDB?
Somewhat related to this question, say that I have an object category which, depending on which type of object I have, has different restrictions on what it contains. (if you can reword the previous ...
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Bothering to cater to non-JavaScript clients? [duplicate]
Considering that it's April, 2013; do I still need to worry about non-JavaScript capable/enabled clients?
Note: This question excludes having helper text with: JavaScript is required to view this ...
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How would you architect an application which is largely a collection of flowcharts?
I am working with a history teacher on a history app. He has like 200 flowcharts that he wants to put into the app (among other things). The two likeliest-looking ways to do it:
HTML/CSS. The big ...
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What is the best technology for a TRULY portable REST client
I develop a suite of productivity tools, for Mac, iOS and Windows. They all communicate with a sync server via a RESTful interface (using Protocol Buffers), but as we add new platforms, we realize the ...
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Idiomatic Javascript code architecture
I am writing a node.js application which I am breaking down into modules, the issue is I am not sure how to organise my code in an idiomatic Javascript way.
Currently each of my modules exposes a set ...
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Does anyone have suggestions for design or open source libraries specifically for a single page AJAX application?
I'm working on a major new version of a browser based application and I'm looking for comments/suggestions about the architecture/design.
It's a single page application using AJAX and client side ...
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Should I be using a JavaScript SPA designed when security is important
I asked something kind of similar on stackoverflow with a particular piece of code however I want to try to ask this in a broader sense.
So I have this web application that I have started to write in ...
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Are JavaScript MVC Frameworks only for 'single-page' apps?
I've been looking into several of the JavaScript MVC Frameworks (Backbone.js, Spine, SproutCore,etc.) and it seems to me that all of these are designed to act as 'single-page' applications. All of the ...
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Writing a game engine using javascript
..by this I mean a logic handler for a chess game. Basically validating a move and checking if somebody has won.
Now ignore the complexity of the game(if you can..) I'd like some sort of psuedo code ...
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Which open source javascript projects to look at to learn how to write large programs in the language [closed]
I have quite a lot of experience in large scale development in Java. However, I want to learn how to do so in JavaScript. Could anybody point me some great large (> 20KLOC, or even > 100KLOC) open ...
