Questions tagged [application-design]
Application design covers the entire pre-implementation phase of a project and consists in conceptualizing the architecture, its components, the interactions between each component, the data flows, and the processes to implement.
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Is inferring types from runtime schema an anti-pattern in type-driven design?
This is a problem very specific to TypeScript programming language. I do not think other (statically + strongly) typed languages have this problem and only support type-first development. When I am ...
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Where should an application's admin tools be located? [closed]
I am trying to make some admin and management tools to help staff/moderators manage users and content in an online application. But how will staff access the management tools?
There are two options:
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Architecture to show real time Google Calendar data (without polling) on a client
I have a Flutter app with a Firebase Firestore database.
I want to integrate my app with Google Calendar, and I need the app to have real-time access to the calendar data.
Moreover, my app needs to ...
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Repository concerns
We have a layered application with (basically): WebAPI, App Services, Domain and Repository layers.
This fits for most situations, but now we face a slightly different challenge on where we need to ...
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Using three different database engines in the same application
Currently, I'm working on a graduation project about designing a Document Management System (DMS) that incorporates some functionalities as follows:
It won't use folders to organize documents; ...
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Table referential integrity varying according to application logic
I've come across a scenario where data in one table is related to another table but referential integrity doesn't seem to apply as I would usually expect. This is because table x uses data from ...
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What is the difference between detailed design and design for construction?
I am currently reading Code Complete. And I was confused when the author in one case uses the term "detailed design", and in the other "design for construction". What is their ...
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Storing a large number of user permissions [closed]
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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Separating model and applicative user in app
I am working on a mobile application, and I want to plan a separation between the model layer that represents a user (that comes from the server) and the "applicative" user that has the same ...
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Design a model for a user
There has been a change in the project I am working on.
Until today, there was only one type of user in the system.
From the moment you logged in, you had all the information about the user.
The new ...
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How can I enable user data sovereignty in a B2B SaaS application?
We develop a SaaS solution that processes customer ERP data and provides analyses from it in a front-end. The software is a standard solution and should require as little customization as possible for ...
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When Is it worth writing your own CRUD generator for project?
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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Recommended way of caching weather information
I'm developing an application that will show some weather information based on the user's location. Since the weather forecast is just a very small feature of the app that complements the main ones, I ...
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Automatic creation/upgrade of database in devops cycle
DevOps of our customer require that our application creates database objects and Kafka topics automatically on application start, if they are missing. Moreover, they want the application to ...
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App-Website Communication for Ionic/vue.js App
Currently I am designing a cross-platform mobile app using Ionic and vue.js.
That app enables users to create a game, add players and play rounds. When the game is played, a score for each player will ...
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