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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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I'm designing an application that is going to receive tens to hundreds of thousands of requests. Users submit requests on behalf of Customers (which are singular persons). Each request will contain ...
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Since I started studying security in web applications, it seems that everyone always says to never store sensitive information (e.g., refresh tokens, access tokens, and so on) due to the risk of ...
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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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I am building a web application. This application is meant to be a home for player rankings and tournament results for a competitive community. I have planned to do this in three layers: a database to ...
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I'm developing a WebSocket server in Go where I read messages from clients and forward them to a tunnel. I want to integrate session management: Check if a user's session is still valid. Handle ...
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I have a great, working web application which uses SvelteKit, DrizzleORM, a PostgreSQL database running on Amazon RDS. It is hosted on Netlify, which means that the “backend” consists of one big ...
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Edit: writing a more specific question, as per comment, I guess my question boils down to: are dynamic properties designs appropriate for applications with rich UI and complex business logic (as ...
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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 have a web application written in express.js and php 8.2. Currently, anyone can right lick in chrome or edge chromium browser and go to inspect element>>network tab and click on data ...
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Video streaming sites like YouTube are experimenting with server-side ad insertion Server-side ad insertion differs from normal YouTube ad insertion techniques primarily in how ads are delivered to ...
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Before I begin, I want to say I am very new to this and I am a junior but also solo developer with no seniors to ask for guidance. Please feel free to explain to me that I am not approaching it ...
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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 have a web game design question. I am trying to build a multiplayer web game with non-intensive graphics (ex tic-tac-toe, chess). I am trying to figure out how to take already authenticated users in ...
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I recently started designing my first MVP-app. I like the idea of having a "dumb" view to be able to cover as much of the code with unit tests. The app I build will be an app to create ...
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I have a NextJS app for which I want to cache data from our backend APIs to reduce the load when we have high volumes of concurrent users scrolling through (or search) years-worth of historical data. ...
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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 need to process status changes related to an entity in a sequential order. Not in parallel. Will an SQS FIFO Group with MessageGroupId = UserId be enough? Let's say I have the folowing messages: ...
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please note that while I refer to a specific web application framework in the following, the problem also arises with most other web application frameworks I know so please don't be afraid to reply ...
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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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At work, we have a Web application, which makes queries to databases, and I’m asked to determine if using Web APIs could be an added value. Personally, I’m not convinced it is. I know Web APIs are ...
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I am making a web application for parameterized procedural world generation. Given the computational resources involved, this application involves a server backend for generating the world with an API ...
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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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When creating a web application that will allow users to upload images and mark them as private, should those images be protected by authentication and authorization mechanisms against access by other ...
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... or technology stack for compliant web applications. GDPR among other includes cookies usage defining four cookie types: strictly necessary cookies , preferences cookies, statistics cookies, ...
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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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I'm confused about the meaning of API, specially in the context of REST. I'm thinking of one example. My company creates an application that runs on a server (the "backend"). (JavaScript 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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I am building a web application where a user logs in, and uploads a CSV file with employee data to S3. This is an example of the format of the file. id name country age 3243 John Doe USA 48 Using this ...
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I am refactoring an old application which has about 200 user permissions. Based on access permissions for the user, menu items for webpages will be Enabled or not. Permissions are also checked on the ...
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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 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 am looking to create a multi-page web app. I had begun the construction of this web app in angularJS when I realized this was no longer being supported. I am early enough in development that it isn'...
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I'm trying to understand the size of a micro service. Fake situation: Data is read 1,000,000 times for every write. So when you scale out you generally only care about scaling out for the 'GET' ...
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I am currently making a newsletter website that will send you a email with the top ten manga for that week. Currently I have a web scraper that retrieves the top ten along with descriptions and other ...
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I'm engineering architecture of a new web based software. I've never worked on high-scale softwares before and I'm reading a lot about it. To increase client-side speed and reduce load on servers, and ...
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I'm developing and designing a system which runs mostly on intranet of client companies. The system consists of one main database which is MariDB, for now one web-application as system management and ...
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I'm new to "web development" so I don't know much about ways to store data. I'm trying to build a web app using Python-Django which accesses private data from multiple accounts. The data ...
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I'm following roughly the TDD style as explained in the "Obey the Testing Goat" book: You have a functional test for your (Django, in my case) web app that tests the observable behaviour via ...
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Older iPads used to have a home button: Newer iPads don't have it. They have a line on the screen you're supposed to swipe up to get to the home screen: Now if an app has a row of links or buttons ...
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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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I am working on an online exam management system, which have those main actors:- Super Admin. Can manage questions/answers under all functional areas. Functional Admin. Can add questions/answers ...
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In a web app I'm writing, a singed-in user is recognized by their cookie containing a session identifier. That session id has sixty-four bits of entropy, so I believe brute-force attacks are ...
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This is a question for software engineers who are tasked with managing the development cycle for a Web application using NPM packages for deployment on a customer's Intranet or the Internet. This is ...
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I'm not a frontend dev, but I recall that a few years ago, the this keyword was commonplace in frontend codebases. In recent years, I haven't seen this get used anymore. In the last few frontend ...
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I think it will help to give a little context, not only about the DB architecture but the actual product. I am building a business where we will be selling pallets of liquidated merchandise. Think a ...
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We have a on-premise web application with frontend (Node/Express) and backend (Python/Flask), which, like every other web application I've ever worked on, provided HTTPS by using a proxy web server (...
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I am working on a portable SaaS web application that has these requirements: The application can run as a cloud service hosted by my organization. Clients can run the application in their own on-...
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Although the splitting of web application/ web sites to front-end (client) and back-end (server) is popular, this binary division is frequently pretty far from actual complexity of architecture: The ...
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