Client-side validation – I assume you are talking about web pages here – relies on JavaScript. JavaScript powered validation can be turned off in the user’s browser, fail due to a scripting error, or be maliciously circumvented without much effort. Also, the whole process of form submission can be faked. Therefore, there is never a … Read more
Note: This answer is from December 2018 when an early version of Server-side Blazor was available. Most likely, it is no longer relevant. The poor man’s approach to state is a hinted by @JohnB: Use a scoped service. In server-side Blazor, scoped service as tied to the SignalR connection. This is the closest thing to … Read more
HTTP RFC 2396 defines path separator to be single slash. However, unless you’re using some kind of URL rewriting (in which case the rewriting rules may be affected by the number of slashes), the uri maps to a path on disk, but in (most?) modern operating systems (Linux/Unix, Windows), multiple path separators in a row … Read more
The right answer depends on your priorities and the size of the data set to be paginated. Server side pagination is best for: Large data set Faster initial page load Accessibility for those not running javascript Client side pagination is best for: Small data set Faster subsequent page loads So if you’re paginating for primarily … Read more
Just wanted to make clear that only the latest_receipt_info field is returning the latest renewed receipt. This is based on what we’re actually getting back from Apple. The relevant documentation is here on page 21. Although it states that latest_receipt and latest_receipt_info fields are “Only returned for iOS 6 style transaction receipts for auto-renewable subscriptions”, … Read more
Not at all a weird question – I’ve been trying to sell Angular to a lot of java developers and they ask this. I asked it myself when I was learning (I’m still learning, btw) If you take a ‘conventional’ java webapp as you’ve described and Angular-ize it, you’ve got to first take your server … Read more
Ajax polling adds a lot of HTTP overhead since it is constantly establishing and tearing down HTTP connections. As HTML5 Rocks puts it “Server-Sent Events on the other hand, have been designed from the ground up to be efficient.” Server-sent events open a single long-lived HTTP connection. The server then unidirectionally sends data when it … Read more
tl;dr: with server-side routing you download an entire new webpage whenever you click on a link, with client-side routing the webapp downloads, processes and displays new data for you. Imagine the user clicking on a simple link: <a href=”https://stackoverflow.com/hello”>Hello!</a> On a webapp that uses server side routing: The browser detects that the user has clicked … Read more
In Meteor 0.5.4 this has become a lot easier: First run the following commands from the terminal: npm install -g node-inspector node-inspector & export NODE_OPTIONS=’–debug-brk’ meteor And then open http://localhost:8080 in your browser to view the node-inspector console. Update Since Meteor 1.0 you can just type meteor debug which is essentially a shortcut for the … Read more