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Best strategy to push client-side updates to server?
I'm just starting to build a web app using React.js, Next.js, Prisma, & PostgreSQL. In this web app, users can create "projects", which are represented by 10-15 rows in the database. ...
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Extensive use of global variables in js codebase?
I've been tasked with refactoring/simplifying the architecture of a (relatively) large node.js codebase and it makes ample use of global variables. I don't have much experience with javascript so just ...
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What are the benefits of keeping npm packages up-to-date? [closed]
The company I work for is maintaining and developing a web application that uses many Node.js packages. A lot of these packages are really outdated. I can intuitively understand that it is good to ...
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What would be the reason for using asynchronous programming on a web server?
I have a python/php background and just about to start work on a NodeJS project which is why I have this question. I have worked a bit on frontend JS but this is the first time I will be using JS for ...
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Difference between Resolvers and Controllers?
I may be overthinking it, but are controllers and resolvers the same thing in web applications? Coming from the MERN stack, everyone used to call these request processing functions "controllers,&...
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How to create an API on Node.js that needs to be updated once a day?
I want to create an api based on Node.js and Express.js. This api should return an array of products on /products. To get these products on my node server, I need to call a third party api. However, I ...
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QR Code Scanning with location check
I would like to make an order-system with QR-Codes which is online.
How I imagine it to work:
A customer visits a restaurant. There is a QR-Code on his table which takes him to a public webpage where ...
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Do I need a separate backend (Express) for an Angular project if using AWS for data storage?
So, I'm working on developing my first Angular project with/for a friend of mine and I have a design question before I really get started with things.
I'm going to be storing persistent data on AWS ...
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Rabbitmq create queues dynamically based on number of users
I have a scenario where I have to route a list of messages that I get to respective users.
For suppose if I have
messages = [
{ text: 'hi', user_id: 1 },
{ text: 'hi', user_id: 2 },
{ text: 'hi',...
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How to warn devs after installing or updating npm packages? [closed]
I want to warn devs in my team to rebuild the docker containers after installing or updating npm packages.
This is because whenever we edit packages in the environment the only way we've found to test ...
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advice for web communication protocol for "streaming" multiple JSON objects to multiple clients
As a hobby / to learn I am building an app in JavaScript using Node.js where a component of it will take input from a client, send it to a server, and then broadcast it to other clients. For ...
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Is it bad practice to require the same module in multiple files in Javascript?
Let’s say I have three files, all of which import a fairly large module. But I’ve divided them because they have different functions. Now each of the JavaScript files needs an initial statement like
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Is there a way I can make something happen on my nodejs server at a particular time
I'm not sure that I'm even asking the right question so I hope you guys can point me in the right direction here.
I have a full stack web app which has listings (think eBay, Gumtree, Craigslist) and I ...
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Mutexes at application logic level
In my node.js app I have a async function that fetches remote documents and caches them on the disk. Upon a retrieval request for a document first checks the disk, if found loads it from the disk ...
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How to handle different types of errors in Clean Architecture?
So, in the process of creating a user there are 4 possible outcomes:
Username is already taken
Email is already taken
Username is invalid
Email is invalid
Here is what I have in the controller for ...
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