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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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I'm building a web app using Spring Boot (backend) and React (frontend). My authentication is based on JWT, with both access token and refresh token. The refresh token is stored in an HTTP-only ...
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Lately, I’ve been studying the fundamentals of Software Architecture for web applications, and I’m a bit unsure about how the data and presentation layers should interact. From what I understand, the ...
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I'm trying to understand the best way to approach how to manage and update a user’s payment subscription status in a web application. Let’s say you have a subscriptions table in a database that is ...
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My team does predominantly back-end work in C#, with a smattering of front-end web development using Angular. We're starting a new website project, based on the Admin LTE framework / template. This is ...
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I am building a website that uses a recommendation system. Users submit a form which is sent to the backend for the recommendation logic calculation; the recommendation response is sent back to the ...
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I'm building a third-party solution for web applications, which consists of: A client-side library A web server library A third-party service I'm getting blocked on some architecture decisions, ...
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I am making an application in which the user types BDD scenarios of using a webpage. From this retrieve the widgets and their functionalities and make a "webpage prototype" in Figma. I am ...
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I sent a search string to google that responded back with a 413 error stating that the request content is too large. Also, I got back: 400. That’s an error. Your client has issued a malformed or ...
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I'm developing a web application that uses tokens for authentication. Users often open multiple browser tabs, and each tab has a client-side timer to refresh the authentication tokens before they ...
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I'm looking at doing something like this: Browser <-> Desktop App <-> SQLite DB My first thought was, this opens potential access to that SQLite db to every web app that the user interacts ...
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I'm a non-technical person starting a web-based project and would like some feedback as to whether or not building a website using a web-builder service like Squarespace will result in re-work once I ...
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I know one of the differences between Agile and Waterfall is to do with more customer and user feedback, but I'm trying to wrap my head around what makes the Agile/XP model more adaptable to change. ...
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I'm new to web developement so I'm sorry in advance because I assume this is a pretty simple question. I'm currently hosting a website on hostinger - deployed straight from my github repo. Currently, ...
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I was looking for some advice as I am tipping my toes into the world of web development, the question might be broader than the title suggests, so any tip that may be in a different direction is also ...
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Background To preface, I am building a database for the construction of a timing detector. However, I am very new to software engineering and database development. I have been building a website using ...
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I have a web application that contains products and users. There are 10,000+ products and 100,000+ users to give a sense of the scale that's required. For some application specific reasons, I need to ...
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I am fairly new to web development and have been trying to figure out the best way to organize my JavaScript files for the front-end. The first approach I started with was "one JavaScript file ...
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I am trying to devise a simple system that, with the use of tokens, allows a specific file to be rendered in the client's browser, yet prevents the user agent from being able to download the file. ...
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I've built a small single-page web application in React and seen that it's possible to serve the app as a static site on something like S3. Previously, I considered using Nginx, but as this is lower ...
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I am currently developing a feature for my web application that tracks the amount of time a user spends on a specific page. Our backend is built with Django, and the frontend is using React and ...
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When my website sends emails to set or reset the password, they sometimes don't arrive at the recipient. This problem does not arise for email addresses at large providers (as Google or Microsoft), ...
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I am working on digitizing old photographs, articles, ephemera, etc. related to my town's history, and I've been tasked to put these scans I've made onto a website for the public to see. There are ...
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I am looking for a way to let Web QA tester to test website with specific version. So, Web QA tester can say things like "this X is broken since version A.B.C". The current test/release ...
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In a web application with a frontend and a backend part, how exactly is the cancellation token mechanism implemented over HTTP? HTTP is a stateless protocol and it does not allow "sharing" ...
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Each time a user of my APP / website interacts with the APP such that it makes an API call to the backend, the backend will make an API call to the mongoDB database to retrieve the document that holds ...
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I am planning to design a microservice system architecture for a ticketing platform. It will be similar to "TicketMaster". Here is the flow of my architecture: client web browser API ...
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I'm currently learning how to separate frontend server and backend server. However, i'm not sure which approach should i take between the two Frontend server obtain data from backend server and ...
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I recently finished an interview with a company as a web developer. I'm the first and only developer that is about to be hired in this company. They have a web application that was created by a ...
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I'm learning JavaScript and just came across "use strict". It sounds like to me it should always be in play but me being a beginner I was wondering if there are scenarios/environments when ...
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I'm working on a website that, for all intents and purposes, functions as a Choose Your Own Adventure book rendered as a single page app (SPA). Starting at the left, this is the user experience: Each ...
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I have a class file Settings.php that loads an ini file and assigns the content to a constant for global access and reducing clutter. The class file contains the logic for loading the settings and ...
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An application has a multifactor login. The user logs in with its e-mail and password, and then the following screen asks for a one time password received via e-mail or generated by a mobile app. In ...
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In the web development application context, when someone says resolver, they talk about getting the data and modify it and then return it? What about adapters? are adapters essentially resolver ...
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In this scenario, my renderer process' goal would be to make an HTTP request to an external web server and receive responses. My question is: which options below would be more secure, give a future ...
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Suppose there is a third-party application which offers GRPC services with authentication. You want to use these services in your web application. So you will basically use that service behind the ...
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For compliance reasons, we want admins of a web app to work on it from devices (phones or computers) approved by IT. Or rather, they can work from other devices, but should get logged out quickly, so ...
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I'm currently working on an ERP Blazor WebAssembly app that works alongside its base Razor Class libraries. The app could have some custom pages that aren't the same for all the customers and are ...
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I have an endpoint that teachers can use to invite students to a virtual classroom by providing their emails in a list format. Let's call it POST invite-students. I have these four resources: api/v1/...
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I am working on a form building feature that will be used across different applications within our organization. Since each app has a slightly different stack we are planning to implement this feature ...
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I'm a huge believer in the value of Intellisense for showing you what syntax is expected and allowed (and also saving typing, though this is a secondary consideration). When you build a web component (...
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For a frontend web app version 3.9, we have a visual change that I would constitute as a backwards compatible (as far as the API) new feature. Therefor, my SemVer instinct is to bump the minor version ...
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I am creating SCSS for the large project, I decided to use BEM methodology. I will have a lot of containers. I have question about BEM and about best practices. My current code: .footer { &...
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Let's consider an entrepreneur decides to create a new company like Airbnb, Netflix, etc. The problem is about the software part. He doesn't know how long it takes to create the mobile/web app? How ...
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Something that annoys me when reading about decoupling microservices is that the problem is often stated, with either poorly explained, bad, or no solutions provided, which seems to especially be the ...
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Given a (Django) web application following the model-template-view model, when returning a template based on an object should if-else logic be in the view or the template? The API endpoint (view) gets ...
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I am currently working on a small web-app stored in a monorepo and using PSQL as database (hosted on GCP). It's my first time working for a web app and I have to create a lot of tables manually such ...
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I'm busy working on a website – somewhat new to this – and I don't quite know where I should store static data: in the public folder as a separate json file, or within the .js file as an object. In ...
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Canva has Templates that are unique & can be easily modified by anyone & replaced with their own text, images, etc... I want to build something like that. I have multiple options to use but ...
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Given: You have a list of opportunities* that may improve the speed metrics of your website. For example Total Blocking Time (TBT) is one metric that heavily impacts the experience of a visitor. You'...
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I need to make an app for employees & employers. When is it worth writing your own CRUD generator for a project with the aim of process automation? With such a generator I wouldn’t need to create ...
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