Questions tagged [web-development]
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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Resource protection for static webpages
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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How to store OAuth2.0 tokens without any authentication logic on the backend
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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Serving part of a web application as a python package for people to install, ok to do?
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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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What is an optimal system design for tracking product views per user that is scalable?
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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How do I properly organize JavaScript files for web development?
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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Allow-Rendering-Prevent-Download Architecture
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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Is it a good idea to serve a Single Page Application as a static site?
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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Best Approach for Implementing User Watch Time Tracking
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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Password reset email that is not considered spam
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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Designing a database schema for a website related to my town's history
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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How to Web Distribution like Firebase App Distribution?
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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How exactly is the cancellation token mechanism implemented over HTTP?
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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Is 10 KB a large amount of data to pass around each time a user makes an API call?
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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Architecture Design using Queue and JWT Token for session management
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
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frontend server obtain data from backend server, or frontend server return page with javascript that obtain data from backend server?
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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