Questions tagged [server-side]
Server side coding involves work which does not interact with UI, and is critical to process requests fired by client-side.
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Are Physical Firewalls mandatory
I have a Delphi software application that uses non standard port nnnnn to nnnnn+50 with the FTPS protocol TLS 1.3
Until now I was suggesting my customers that the Server Side application needs to have
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Is there a way to add impending state changes to a queue on a node server, and is it necessary?
I'm writing an express/socket.io-powered game server for a web game. I have a central map of game state objects, each representing an ongoing match, like so:
// map of gameId -> game (primary ...
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Choosing between frontend and backend
I am new to web development. After reading some posts, such as this and this, I am still not sure which parts of my application belong to backend. To make things simple, I will use a mock example. The ...
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How to measure the benefit of replacing big parts of the HTML DOM vs doing a new fresh request?
I am looking for a method to measure the time difference between:
the time it takes to load and completely reach TTI for example.com/page-B given that example.com/page-A is loaded.
the time it takes ...
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Is there a canonical definition of SPA or is SPA a broadly agreed-on architecture with fuzzy edges? [closed]
Is there a canonical definition of SPA which would exclude the software architecture model described below?
I'm working on an app with a new web-architecture model (new to me, at any rate) which has ...
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Database consistency for a distributed system
I'm working on a phone call monitoring project. The aim is to have one row in the calls table for each ongoing call. Each call instance may be updated by many different servers/threads as more ...
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Is there any recognized pattern supporting or discouraging the access to the same database from multiple applications?
I don't have a formal education regarding application architecture, what I know I mostly "absorbed" on the job from enterprise architectures of the companies I worked for and/or from senior ...
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Achieving server-side rendering of data coming from a PHP API
I have been working on a blog application with Codeigniter 3.1.8 and AngularJS v1.7.8. It is intended to be versatile and easy to use.
The Dashboard of the application is "pure" Codeigniter, ...
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Where to store the images on Server-side and not to store in the static folder and How to retrieve them on request?
I am creating a Nodejs website and the website is about selling photos, although I will store the images on the static folder but in the low quality or watermarked. But When the user Purchases that ...
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Storing username and password for another site in Node and MongoDB
This is not about storing my user's login details in the app, I already use hash and JWT tokens for that. There is a part of our app where we need to store the login details of the user for another ...
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Server side rendering of third party updated html components
Say I am wanting to include a third party HTML component in my site...
I know that I can simply include a <script> tag to pull in the component on the client's side; however because I do not ...
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Securely allow access to a secure area of a website with PHP
I am making a website that requires a secure area for the website owner to easily upload new content to. Because this is a relatively simple website there is no account system. I just have a URL for ...
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If we write validation in sever side, don't it become two times of writing same code? What is the standard software engineering solution for it? [duplicate]
I am not asking whether to do server-side validation or not.
My question is whether any solution or better practice exist in the software world to address this repetition of code.
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What does a proper server response look like? [closed]
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Which is the best server response for an endpoint to get a user's age?
30 or {"age":30} or {"metadata":{"time":1561919615,"status":200},"age":30} or something else?
I am writing a server using ...
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Why does YouTube save Restricted Content filter locally?
I was scrolling down on my YouTube Homepage and found that beside the filter marked Restricted Content, a point mentioned that the setting of this filter applies to this browser only. Here's the ...
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