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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Being pressed to deliver as the sole dev on a project that's not near completion
TL;DR: Asked to create a project with an unfamiliar language and dev environment. Blown way past expected timelines and have been constantly pulled off of the project for other work. The crunch is on ...
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Architecture for random quote generation
I am writing a simple fun project which would give you a random quote each time you visit the site as well as if you remain on the page the quote would refresh automatically after some fixed time.
My ...
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How do services that rely on client-side access to an API or data consumption endpoint prevent abuse?
For example, web application monitoring services like New Relic RUM or Bucky use JavaScript to collect data on a user's session and eventually send that data back to an endpoint. For New Relic, the ...
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How to structure an App one back-end & Multiples front-end
I have a big challenge to solve where I have some ideas but I don't know what would be the best solution.
Basically I have to develop an application where I have to develop a back-end(web service) ...
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Should I avoid using CORS if possible?
I'm writing an API that will interface with an SPA front-end. For simplicity I currently have the API at api.example.com, and the SPA itself is at example.com. I have CORS set up and everything is ...
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Question about security of php login page
i'm working on a CLI open sourced project who generates Virtual Hosts for apache 2. But i understand that using command line is less practical for some persons than using a web panel. So i decided to ...
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Do I store blog posts in a database? And how do I continue to make posts?
I'm trying to make a simple blog from scratch, but it occurs to me that I probably shouldn't have a bunch of static html pages that I link to, especially since I want the home page to be a cascade of ...
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When would I use additional phases in the deployment pipeline of a web project?
All of my projects up to this point have been solo (I develop single page web applications). I've always used an IDE which automatically uploads changes to a test Amazon EC2 server over SFTP and I ...
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How to document URLs and interaction between pages
We're developing a web application that is now growing to quite a few pages, all dealing with complex data and rather complex interactions between pages.
For instance, the login flow encompasses the ...
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Is taking a snapshot of UI to compare the data considered a good desicion?
If I have a complex attendance project to track the employees attendance and leaving, and according to that they get overtime money through a workflow.
The schedule is something like that :
6 weeks ...
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designing better and crisp server.js (the file which is called to start node application 'e.g. node server.js')
While creating server.js file we need to provide routes information as
var Login = require('./routes/login.js');
app.use('/login', Login);
Now, suppose the node project is a REST services project. ...
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Web form repopulation after invalid submit
In general, what should be the best way to repopulate a form when submission fails due to invalid inputs.
Here, invalid would mean something did not pass the check or some validation methods server ...
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saving and using search form and/or menu links parameters
I have s seach form on start page of the website on submiting the form which has 10 fiels/selectboxes I want to save the search criteria of the user in session
on submitting the form the user lands ...
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Database Architecture - Comprehensive history of likes/shares/etc for all accounts?
The Setup
This is a membership-based site. Each account is capable of:
Making posts (unlimited, no restriction on frequency)
Liking, sharing and commenting (on) the other posts
The goal is to ...
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Disadvantages of using vanilla code for a Single Page Application
I am building a SPA that basically incorporates multiple video streams (using WebRTC) and various other components such as a text 'chat' feature.
I have spent a couple of weeks building a proof of ...
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Developing web applications for long lifespan (20+ years)
I'm currently developing a web application for government land planning. The application runs mostly in the browser, using ajax to load and save data.
I will do the initial development, and then ...
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Handle object in handler or inside object
I've start wondering what's the best practice when handling objects in web development.
Oversimplified the process when there is a page request often looks like:
Page request.
Fetch object data ...
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Fully API-based website - is it a good idea?
I sometimes hear about making web-site fully API based, meaning that even in browser the page is constructed based on API endpoint and practically nothing else.
One of the benefits I see in this is ...
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In c# how do people make complex functions
Hi I'm working on a c# MVC code first project. I've started the project and have created the Models, database frontend etc.
Now my attention has come to writing something that can read an excel ...
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Getting pure feedback early, without damaging brand by exposing unpolished features
Getting useful feedback early in the development cycle gets you to a high-quality feature faster.
And the most useful feedback can be in the form of users actually using something in the wild, ...
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Encrypting a folder used for serving images?
I have a Node.js application that reads and writes images from a server. The images are stored in a directory on an Ubuntu operating system. Express static routes serve images from that folder when ...
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How to better manage beans?
In my application - I have to expose services using JAX-RS(for mobile platform) and consume the same set of services in a JSF based web app.
Now, I have @Entity beans for persistence layer, @...
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Web application logging strategy
Basically:
I am creating an enterprise web application. I would like to do extensive logging of both client and server activity, with all logs ultimately stored on the server. I have found many ...
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Caching data vs. caching output
I don't have much experience in caching among web applications, but I am trying to educate myself in the field and try out various techniques and approaches in ASP.NET MVC.
The majority of tutorials ...
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Should a method always be static if it can be?
I am using Typescript in Webstorm with Angular 2 and I am frequently getting warnings that a given method can be static. Yes, these specific methods do not depend on the state of the object they are a ...
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In a MVC application, what is the correct way to organize the entry points for the business logic?
Generally speaking in a MVC framework we have the Controllers that do things like making sense of a request, preparing the parameters and starting an action in the business logic through some kind of "...
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Why use IIS or apache tomcat instead of self-hosting?
I am a .NET developer. I see ASP.NET MVC framework now started providing a self-hosting feature. It makes a lot of sense (to me). A self-hosted application feels complete with no external dependency.
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Splitting a big project to create a multi-module Maven project
I am working on a Spring-MVC application in which we are using Maven for dependency management. As the project is big, we are thinking of splitting the project into several parts. I had some doubts, ...
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Need help choosing/creating a workflow for web development
I've been designing and programing websites for the most part of my adult life. I've always done this solo, freelancing mostly and working from a single machine.
Currently, I use Dreamweaver for the ...
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How to work with starter kits and their updates?
When I start a new project based on a nice starter kit like this Angular 2 one. How do you keep up with changes to a base repo like this?
I know that it is a 'starter', but it would be nice to merge ...
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Should web forms allow invalid input?
When completing online forms, many online applications will instruct users how to format their input, detect whether the input is formatted correctly, and issue error messages if it's entered "wrong" ...
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Who designs databases in web development? [closed]
In the context of web development, who designs databases? Despite a whole host of information associating back-end web dev with server-side processing, data modeling, and the like, the database design ...
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JS object, PHP object or MySQL database
I'm trying to improve my Web development skills, after a period spent in reading books,articles and stuffs about JS and jQuery now I'm doing the same thing on PHP.
I've read some stuffs about PHP ...
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REST Based UI vs Server Side Generation
I would like to design an architecture for an admin dashboard application. I have some requirements and restrictions and want to finalize my architecture. I'll try to be as clear as not to be asked a ...
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Validation for each record in csv file
I create page to import records so users can import records using a CSV file.
I am already using Sanitization to remove unexpected characters for specific field of the record, Do I have to validate ...
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Two way data synchronization between web application and REST API server
I have a web application and a REST API server (Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016) that I don't have access to it's code, but I have access to the available resources. I need to create a data sync between ...
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Architecture review - case study (Spring MVC)
I'm developing an Java Web Application with Spring, and I have some questions about my architecture. Before showing it, here is the context:
I am developing a web application with more than 80 ...
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Node.js deployment — npm or gulp
Suppose that I have a project written in JS via such frameworks like Node.js and Express. It also uses Mocha as a test framework and Gulp as a build system.
I wonder what is the best way to expose ...
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Choice of response type in web application architecture
I've been using various server side languages/frameworks for developing back-end web applications. Every server-side framework that I've been using has the capability for returning views/templates (...
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Should I strictly follow restful guidelines
I have the following resources in my Asp.net web API:
route: consisting of the following relevant properties
arrival_location_id
leaving_location_id
and location:
id
name
coordinates
The thing is,...
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Testing a single server deployed web application for cloud/cluster?
My Java EE web application runs fine on my local tomcat server single instance. Now it has to be deployed on a cloud/cluster env to scale. I intend to use hazelcast for interJVM communication.
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Storing uploaded images for website
I'm developing a website (using PHP, JS, and MYSQL) which allow user to upload images. My requirements are as below:
User is able to upload 1 or multiple images at a time.
Website is able to save ...
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Bootstrap components and SMACSS/BEM methodologies
I have no enough experience in web development and I need advice from more experienced developers.
I have been exploring SMACSS and BEM methodologies for a few weeks, and I like them, it makes really ...
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Why don't servers deliver JS and CSS at the same time as HTML?
Since every time a web browser requests a page, we are almost certain that there are .css and .js files to be sent as well. Why do we wait for the browser to parse the DOM and discover those files ...
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How can I maintain a database record of an entity that belongs to several categories of another entity, per year, per season, etc
I am building a kind of School Management System.
I want to be managing the database records of things like assessment, term/season, academic years. every info must belong to a particular academic ...
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Using relative units instead of px following DRY principles
I am relatively new in web development, but I am trying always to find the best way and make my code even CSS and HTML clean. So I've started exploring best practices.
First of all lets start ...
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What is the best way to develop a script with multiple people?
Hello I am new to PHP programming. Sorry if my question seems silly. I already know I have to use a version control.
My doubts about the source code protection.
How can I work with other programmers ...
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Viewing local changes to website on separate device
I'm trying to figure out how to do something, and I can't quite seem to get it to work. Let me describe the situation:
Using a hosts file, we redirect the resources (CSS/JS/etc) of a website, let's ...
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Database Considerations (Loop vs comparison)
I am working on a project where I am provided a CSV file with around 60k records containing printer usage. The CSV file itself has no primary identifier per row (it's an export from another system).
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How is approval done in cors via preflight request?
As far as I have known in CORS, browser sends preflight with OPTIONS request to the server to gain approval for the real subsequent GET/POST request. Now, HTTP is sessionless. Is the custom header THE ...
