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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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Ways & Methods switch between MongoDB Database after selecting a country. (MERNG)
I have a concept in which a user selects a country, which will either filter or go to that database; I was thinking of alternatives or options that would help in the process. These are my first plans ...
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How to best manage multilingual information in documents in JSON/MongoDB/Mongoose?
I have to manage multilingual information in JSON documents in a MongoDB/Mongoose context. But I'm in a dilemma regarding best the format to use with a view to performance metrics:
I'm currently ...
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OOP applications and Databases
I am having such a hard time with OOP and databases. Both in C++ with SQL and even more so with Node.js and MongoDB. For this question I will use Node/Mongo.
Let's say we have a user object. Over time ...
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Need advice on approach for IOT project
I need some advice on an IOT project I am working on. Here are some details about what I am trying to do:
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Periodically receive data from the 3rd party vendor API in real time and allow users ...
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Which of these model error handling strategies makes most sense?
I am building an API in expressjs and, currently, mongo/mongoose. I currently have some model methods that return true or false, some that return a value or false, and some that return a value or ...
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System design to store pieces of data with specific ttyl to then refetch
I have a system which generates pieces of data that needs to be tracked and assigned a specific TTYL value (a value in seconds) for how long they are supposed to live before being re-processed.
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Do I need MongoDB (or another type of database) to authenticate with Google?
I'm creating a web application using Node.js and Pug, and have recently been looking at adding external OAuth authentication to this site, using Express and Passport.js.
I've found a lot of examples ...
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What *really* is the difference between relational and non-relational data?
Here is where I am at right now: I know that relational data, like that found in relational databases like MySQL or Postgres, is relational because there are relations between the tables. That is the ...
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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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Recommendations for data clustering in an application
I am making a social media app. I have a use case in which i have to cluster similar type of data. For example, take Instagram. When a user likes a post, we get a notification that 'x likes your post'...
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Refactor MVC to more scalable architecture?
Months ago I began a new web project which, in the beggining, seemed like a small application with virtually few users. I began the project by using the awesome Hackathon Starter WebApp Boilerplate by ...
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avoid passing dbsession object to multiple modules
I have a project which has a service-oriented architecture. for example, anything relates to payment is inside payment module.
-dao
-config
-constatnts
-middlewares
-modules
-payment
-user
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Does using MEAN stack reduce the need for code and data structures compared to ASP.net with SQL?
I've been writing web applications for almost 10 years. The ASP.net stack has been my bread and butter and although it has a lot of great things about it, I honestly never chose ASP.net. It's just a ...
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creating nodejs apps in php/mysql framework with later on full step by step migration to nodejs in mind
I'm looking for the most efficient path to convert over time my own made php framework for nodejs and I believe that nodejs experts and specific developers who had their years working with apache/php/...
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