Questions tagged [web-applications]
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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What is a good strategy to avoid creating duplicate profiles for many individuals in a database?
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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How dangerous is storing sensitive information in LocalStorage?
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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Best Practice for Managing Payment Subscription Tier Status
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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How to design for API use cases that need different data from the same table?
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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How to manage user session in WebSocket
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.
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Advice for pooling DB connections with serverless
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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Fixed vs dynamic properties for a system with customization and changing requirements
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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Are using website builder's, like Squarespace, OK to use when building a web-app that needs unique external components?
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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How to stop showing SQL queries of a web application in Browser's Inspect elements?
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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Server-side ad insertion and video downloaders
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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Deciding between logic on the front-end or back-end
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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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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Best way to approach connection between game server to client connection with Django web server as middleman
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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Concrete implementation of MVP with "dumb" view
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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Distributed caching system that scales and enables real-time UI updates?
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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