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Backend to client communication: WebSocket or Message Queue?
I have a hobby project, for simplicity imagine a poker game, consisting of a backend (Spring) and a client application (Flutter) where the client can join rooms in which he can take a seat. The client ...
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Angular integration with back-end
We're developing a big project for our company, and they asked us to use Angular even though none of the devs have any considerable experience with it. The back-end is C#/.NET Core with ABP. My ...
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Excel Addin VBA, Backend/Frontend
I have a question regarding what is supposed to be backend and frontend for desktop applications and in this special case, an Excel Addin VBA. My application contains lot of forms and modules. I ...
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Front-end supporting multiple back-end versions - Maintaining backward compatibility
I know it's a broad question so I'll try to be as specific as possible. This question is probably as much an "organisational" question as a technical one. Our company is selling our software/platform ...
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Methods of separating front and back-end with full stack javascript?
Suppose I have a front-end which is mostly a single-page application written using angular, grunt, and bower. And suppose I have a backend, which is mostly just a REST API sitting on top of an ORM, ...
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Is having only static pages calling the backend a good idea?
I'm new to web applications development, specially when it comes to frontend, but as I understood, a typical structure for a big application would have a frontend php (or equivalent) layer calling the ...
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Web Services vs Server Side Methods
With all the front end development frameworks now available. I'd like to know if the generally accepted protocol is for a back end service to simply provide web services for the front end to consume? ...
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What are the advantages of a 'traditional' 'backend' architecture for a standard CRUD app? [closed]
In the past few years, 'client-side' web applications have become popular. A common approach nowadays is to have the backend as thin as possible, mostly exposing an API for the client-side Javascript ...