Web applications are applications that are accessed over the "web", which can mean the Internet, or an internal network (an intranet).
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Extensible web application where users can upload client-side code
I have a simple web application built with Angular which fetches some state from a web server and shows it to the user. Additionally I want to implement a feature where users are able to customize the ...
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How to display recent post on website and make own search engine ? With PHP
On OLX like Website , Anytime a user posts a new ad. It comes in top of the page.
No search is involved in it.
Which technology we can use to make such functions.
Suppose X is visiting my website ...
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Web-service which uses GPL software [duplicate]
here's the problem.
I have developed an Azure-Based Web application which exploits some VMs. On top of these VMs I'm running a modified code which is licensed under the GPL license. Here's the flow:
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Software development with Java or Node.js [on hold]
I've been seraching for quite a long time now, but can't find any solution to my problem. I'm working on the development of project that will require a pure (executable) desktop application that will ...
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How to store uploaded client documents securely in webapplication
A small company without any IT skills wants to run a web application where customers can enter various bits of data and upload pdfs.
The documents regard product specifications and have to be kept ...
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Advice for a Javascript table library
I wrote a javascript program a few years ago that displays a large data table. I am currently using a thin wrapper around the basic html tag. This was never ideal, but it was easy to implement. As ...
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Seeking benefits of both SQL and binary files in a data storage scheme
I'm looking for some input on how to keep certain benefits of both a binary file and a SQL database in an interesting data storage problem.
I have a legacy custom binary file format that is ...
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Website apps, mobile apps, what's the difference? [closed]
I have been programming for about three years now and I'm now dabbling in Angular and JavaScript Frameworks, the more I dabble the more I hear "app", I'm not sure if I understand the concept of an ...
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Localizing a web-app
I'm just having a debate about the best (future-proof, safe, user-friendly, developer-friendly, technologically nice) approach to localization of a web-application. We are using basically processing ...
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Symfony2 - Best aproach for a plugin system
Symfony2 is handling all its things in bundles in /app or in /vendor. This is fine, if you are handling and managing all by yourself or Ops that handle all needed things.
But I haven't found a good ...
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Looking for an Data Reference - What does the class field of this data return on Mapbox.com [closed]
What I am doing:
I'm building a mobile app in Unity that gets Lat and Long based on the devices GPS and tries to return what location data type you are currently on (in an urban area, in a graveyard, ...
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Embedding custom business logic using Javascript in Java application
We have an application where the front-end is completely rendered dynamically. The web page is stored as JSON in the database. A simple JSON to display input field with a label is as follows:
{
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Can Chrome app retrieve or inject data to web pages?
I want to develop an app (for Chrome desktop) that will retrieve data from different webpages the user surf to and aggregate it, or inject some added JavaScript functionality to those pages, later on ...
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Uploading large files to web-server even if browser closed
I need to permit users to upload large files to my web-server even if the browser is closed. How can I implement this functionality. I have gone through the feasibility of google drive app but it ...
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Connecting ASP.NET and Android applications to the same Database
I am starting to build a web application with ASP.NET which will help people who are looking for rides inside a city find drivers offering rides from defined start points and destinations. The web app ...
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.NET: Are web-based applications inherently harder to build than client-server?
We currently have an ongoing discussion about which approach to move into - we want to replace multiple older environments with .NET applications, and two potential architectures are under discussion:
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Stack for Web/Android/iOS app
I have been trying searching for this answer but perhaps i am not able to use proper words so apologies if this question has been asked earlier.
I want to create something for my startup. I have ...
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When do I reset Two Factor Authentication secret keys?
I have built a simple authentication system for my web application that makes use of the open-source time-based OTP algorithm (RFC 6238). The key for each user is generated when the user is registered ...
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PHP MVC/PAC - Logged In/Admin checks placement
I have set-up a MVC/PAC-like structure for a web application (unsure if it fits any of these design patterns fully). In short it is:
Routing in index.php, which selects the controller and method ...
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Transfer flattened entities instead of DTOs?
I wonder, if the below idea makes sense for our web application. We show various lists of entities, which typically refer to other entities and so on. In the table view, there are columns showing some ...
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Possible performance issues implementing multi-tenant database?
I would like to design and develop school application using PHP and MYSQL as backend. The frontend - a combination of HTML, JS and CSS - has a registration form for every school.
Every school has its ...
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Testing performance of a single page application
I am in a need to prove the performance of a single page application. I would compare it with an application that uses server side to fill the HTML content.
How would one do that? Obviously the Ajax ...
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Does it make sense to internationalize logs?
I'm working on converting the logging API used by a web application from log4j to slf4j, and noticed that the interface used to abstract over the log4j implementation supports internationalization; I ...
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Handling and reporting errors consistently
Errors can come from many different sources - third-party services, libraries, environment, etc. When an error prevents a user from performing their desired action, these diverse errors should be ...
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Alternatives on how to deal with data fetched from external API
We are planning to build a web application which will consume data from an internal REST API that centralizes all of our "core" business data. For matter of demonstration, let's say this API exposes ...
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Finding performance (network perspective) differences between mobile websites and their corresponding applications?
I'm researching performance differences when using an application, compared to its mobile website counterpart. To my help I looked into what other people define as performance(since it's a broad term) ...
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What design patterns exist for large dataset manipulation within MVC for a rich client data grid?
I want to feed an HTML5 data grid with large data sets that the client will want to manipulate in different ways, e.g. aggregation, grouping, pivoting.
The data comes from different web services and ...
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How to detect whether user is actively in the web app?
I'd like to know whether it's possible (and how) to detect whether a user is actively in a web app (aka in the browser tab) and not on another website. If also like to relay the information to a web ...
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Where should I do localization (server-side or client-side)?
I am currently developing a new web application based on a rich JavaScript client which communicates with multiple REST web services on my server. That application is intended to be used in at least ...
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Browser Web Application UI/End User Testing
I am building a web application in php. I am following TDD (write tests before production code) for my unit tests and using BDD to drive discovery of my applications features and to provide ...
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Incorporating external web services in Java/Spring web app
With traditional Java/Spring web apps, I've historically used an JEE architecture where there's a domain tier and a web tier. The web tier mostly contains web controllers. The domain tier includes ...
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What is meant by “Call Stack” in the context of an OWASP review?
I am studying the OWASP Level 2 review measures and methodology. I am applying this to a software I am designing and developing now, so the goal is to write the software the proper way so that it will ...
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Why do some web apps append (random?) strings to cookie names?
I've noticed that, for example, WordPress appends what seems to be some kind of hash or random string to its wordpress_logged_in cookie, making a cookie name of, for example, ...
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Which is the best way to manage multi-account multi-user web application?
I am junior web developer, currently I am developing school application with PHP and MYSQL. After finishing the app I would like to distribute to more schools by allowing them to register in the app ...
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What is the proper infrastructure and release cycle for developing and testing an application? [closed]
I am developing a web application for my coworkers, and from a little management app it is becoming a more and intense large project that is involving more people as I go. I am pretty sure my boss ...
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Reasons not to have flexible role management system
Our .NET web application has the ability to add roles dynamically and assign functionalities (we define them in an application enum) to that role. So those functionalities are defined by us (our ...
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How do I calculate server requirement for a web application
I am developing a backend where in I will be exposing APIs for my mobile application. Users can register,add products,share the links of products through email/sms/anywhere and others can click on it ...
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The future of application cache in HTML 5 [closed]
I had previously deployed application storage in HTML5 to great success in the deployment stage of a few client projects. I used the app cache feature mostly as a way to allow my clients to remotely ...
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Web server facilitating a TCP handshake between two native apps behind typical home firewalls
I currently have two parties set up:
typical HTTP web server
native app distributed to consumers (presumably behind typical home router/firewall configuration)
The app is designed to work on ...
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Is it better to have one web app or multiple web apps
I am going to develop a server application to provide the functionality of a book keeping software in tomcat server. I can think of two ways to achieve this.
Creating a single web application - ...
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Splitting the application into two different hosting providers
Due to cost I am currently thinking of using AWS for scalable hosting of the node.js backend of the application that would be nice to have monitoring,load balancing and all the goodies of the AWS ...
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Relationship between REST APIs and Databases [duplicate]
I've been studying databases and rest APIs lately and I have a question about the relationship between the two.
Imagine I have a database with three tables, STUDENTS, ENROLLED, and CLASSES.
STUDENTS ...
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Should we reuse web app logs for user behaviour analytics?
Our web app generates a large amount of logs. These logs include both events regarding background operations in the app (data arrives from the server, ajax failures, inter-component communication, ...
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Building a real-time web-app with Ajax .post()
Usually, real-time web-apps are built with websockets, right?
Well, let me be radical here - what if I used Ajax?
Okay, okay, I know it has its limitations. You can't build Agar.io, sending data ...
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What is a correct way to exchange information between “frontend” and “backend”? [closed]
I am not so experienced in client-server applications and I could not find exactly answer to my question anywhere in google.
I am developing part of application on server side and my collegue who ...
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B2B SaaS application architecture
For my angularJS application I'm using asp.net web api backend.
For B2C I'm normally have one scalable backend application and each customer can have an account to use the services. There is one ...
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Postgres roles for website users
I am setting up a PostgreSQL database with a very small number of tables for a simple website. I am looking at ways to make it as solid and auditable as possible. Is there any particular reason why ...
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Developing an app using Django. Do I design front-end after app? Or develop Django to fit UI? [duplicate]
Edit: this differs from a similar question because I'm interested specifically in how Django works with the front-end. I.e. what is considered best practice when developing using the Django framework.
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A way to update a list an Android application displays
I just started working on an Android app that should display posts from my site and then a three-column list of some products. The three columns on the list contain the product names, a short ...
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Client Side Filtering or Server Side Filtering
So I am building a web-app. The app will be hosted on heroku and I using a MEAN Stack for development. The main purpose of the app is to allow users to search through data and be able to find a ...
