Questions tagged [web-development]
Software tools used during the development of web-apps or websites.
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Online WYSIWYG website builder
I am looking for a free (open source) or low cost WYSIWYG website builder that I can host on my own server. It needs to be able to handle multiple separate sites on different domains, and it needs to ...
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Remote Progress Bar
The work I do often involves deploying a batch of jobs onto a machine, and then walking away.
In order to minimize turn around, I'm a huge fan of Pushover for notifications on completion. Pushover is ...
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Keep track of all my websites (and domains, hosts, CMS, URLs, etc.)
I run several dozen websites, on many different hosts, using various technologies. It’s easy to lose track of them, especially if they don’t get updated for years. And if having to change something in ...
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A video streaming API with in-video quizzes
I'm working on a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) platform and we need videos for lectures and in-video quizzes. I need an API which enables the video maker to pause the video and have quizzes in ...
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Find conflicts in two different CSS files
Is there a tool where I can upload/(or add content of files in textboxes) two CSS files and it shows me the conflicting css rules?
Example
foo.css
body { font-size: 1rem; }
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.nav { background: ...
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Free Webflow-like site creator
I am trying to create a site, and I was looking for a fully custom site creator. After some searching and recommendations, I found Webflow.
Unfortunately, Webflow, although it's exactly what I was ...
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Browser plugin to capture markup / DOM
I have a need to capture snapshots of the DOM as I use a web application. If I was using Chrome I could do this through a slow manual process stop what I was doing with the app, open the developer ...
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Simple installable HTML website builder
Looking for a simple, free, (low consumption) website builder I can install on my web host. The ones that are available with my web host are slow. Not looking for CMS (Wordpress, joomla, drupal) -- I ...
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Looking for a Self-Hosted “Adaptive Bitrate” Photo Gallery Solution
I have a personal Wordpress website I use as a blog. Recently, I decided to create a few photo galleries using the NextGEN gallery plugin. I naively uploaded the original images, and since they're all ...
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Alternative to Google Calendar embedding with permissions, restrictions, and privacy options
I have a Google calendar account and wanted to embed the calendar onto my webpage. I have secured the webpage so that only authorized users can see it however, I discovered that Google make calendars ...
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Mock-up or prototype tool with HTML/CSS import AND export
I have looked high and low for a mockup tool (aka: prototyping and UX) with the ability to import raw html or a website URL and have come up dry. So far I found dozens of these programs, both offline ...
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How to produce such webpage like https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2898
The IETF site has some nice properties:
Links from the HTML version to the TXT and the PDF versions
Links to sections, other documents
Format for PDF, HTML and TXT nearly identical
Page numbers, ...
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Python Markdown library that handles microdata
I host my own Pelican based static web page. I write my content in Markdown (not reStructuredText).
I am looking for a library that allows me to easily add microdata elements to my content. I've ...
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Display webpages in dynamic tabs
The website I'm working with involves a lot of report viewing. The design requirement is such that whenever the user chooses to open another page[from the navigation pane]; instead of replacing the ...
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Are there tools I can use to get an automated javascript profile of an automated test?
I want to create tests for example using selenium to go to a website and do various tasks there. Then I want to be able to have a javascript cpu profile, or a performance report once the test ...
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Seeking GIS web applications and front end solutions that would serve as replacement for the ArcGIS Web AppBuilder
I would like to find out if there are any Non-ESRI GIS web applications that would serve as an appropriate replacement to the ArcGIS Web AppBuilder application.
A version of the ESRI web app builder ...
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Self hosted open source BrowserStack alternative?
I find myself needing to test websites design, but BrowserStack and similar and comparable alternatives are all a bit to hefty in terms of their price ranges.
Are there any self hosted options that ...
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Mac Version of JS Fiddle
I really like using JSFiddle for testing code, but unfortunately, it isn't very good when it comes to testing code with AJAX requests due to various security features to prevent cross-site scripting, ...
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Global snippet manager that can be plugged in to multiple code editors
I'm looking for a 'global' snippet manager (for CSS, PHP, MySQL, HTML & JavaScript) which has the capability of being accessed by multiple different code editors - such as Notepad++, phpDesigner &...
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REST client for Firefox with "Projects" feature (equivalent for Advanced Rest Client)
I'm looking for some Firefox extension that works like a REST client equivalent to Advanced Rest Client in Chrome.
I already tried the RESTClient and Rest Easy. They work fine, but both having ...
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Form Builder for web
I am looking for a form builder and of course there are tons of out there but the exceptional thing I am looking for is a package with the following features:
UI (drag, drop & ordering) of form ...
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Web performance analyzer that works offline / locally (alternate to YSlow)
I am looking for an alternate for YSlow.
We like it since it has the following great features:
It is open source
We can use it locally to test the script, before we put the app live.
It can be ...
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Free sofware or website with a WYSIWYG editor to build WebSites
I'm building a website that will host some community projects. I want to give to an user that knows nothing about HTML/CSS/JavaScript coding the ability to create some simple web pages using an ...
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Which GPLv3+ compatible web frameworks meet David Pollak's criteria and OWASP Top 10?
There are more web application frameworks in existence than any person or small team is likely to have time to evaluate. This is true even if evaluation simply means reading the documentation, let ...
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Is there a C++ framework for Web Development similar to Laravel 4 for PHP or an MVC framework?
I'm looking for a C++ framework that will manage files, like serving a JS file included in an html document.
It won't just be serving static pages though.
Essentially I would like it to send ...
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CMS with rich text and embedded audio, video, interactive graphics hosted on Azure
We have a website powered by the DotNetNuke CMS. It does a pretty good job, but we're in the market for another solution. I'm particularly interested in something ASP.NET based and potentially ...
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Tool to remove excess CSS and HTML tag formatting
I am in charge of redesigning our companies Informational Website that was designed about 20 years ago in Microsoft FrontPage. It has been updated pretty crudely over the years and now there is random ...
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Connect Motorola DS3578 batch scanner to web service
I'm looking for a tool to deliver barcodes, scanned in batch mode, using a Motorola DS3578 scanner, to a website, using a web service.
As I'm developing the web application, I can make the web ...
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Open source feed sharing app: RSS to Twitter/Facebook
Is there any open source web app that I could download and use, that is similar to:
http://twitterfeed.com
https://dlvr.it
It doesn't have to have all the feature, it's okay if it has the basic ...
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Free alternative to PHP Code Generator (PCG)?
I am looking for a free alternative to PCG (CodeIgniter Web Application Generator) with similar features like CRUD and other actions generation, OAuth Authentication, Page Caching and Admin portal etc....
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Simulation of a LAN Network on the internet
I'm developing a distributed system with a shared hashtable as a project for school. It's written using java Sockets. Since the simulation is required to run at least on two different PCs, is there ...
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Simple alternative to current serverless environments providers
I'm looking for an approachable alternative to the current serverless platforms. I've put my hands in AWS Lambda and GCP Cloud Functions, and even if I get the job done, it's a pain to use everytime, ...
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Like Hotjar's Ask but headless and open source
Hotjar has a nice feature that gives you a button on the bottom right of your page and then when a user clicks on it they can rate the application and give feedback (shown on the screenshot).
I am ...
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Android Browser with developer tools
What application should I use to bring fully fledged developer browsing experience (where I not just view a page as end user, but also discover and edit DOM tree, debug JavaScript, view network ...
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Use-as-you-wish AI-generated portraits of human faces
Are there any comprehensive collections of AI-generated portraits of human faces (photorealistic, male/female, old/young, different skin colors, various facial expressions) that are free to use?
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Good Intercept survey platform/partners
I was wondering if anyone could suggest best/good intercept survey platforms for both Web & App. I am scoping for a survey platform that lets me run intercept on nuanced triggers like time spent ...
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in-browser / online code editor for teaching?
I'm teaching kids (like in a classroom setting) to make a website in a live-coding type format. I'm sharing my screen, of course, but since kids are prone to syntax errors, I want to publish my code ...
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Software to archive/scrape an entire website built with modern techniques (lazy loading, AJAX, infinite scrolling etc.)?
There's plenty of recommendations for website crawler software which can archive entire websites. However in recent years the nature of web development has advanced to the point where old tools simply ...
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I need an application to quickly load up a set of urls during testing and development a web application
When I'm developing for web application, I have a set of 4-10 different urls that I manually check that reflect different states of the data on any given page. I could bookmark these pages (which ...
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Customer friendly bug and FR tracker
We have a small development team (5 developers) with many (20-30) small web projects. There are usually 2-5 person from the customer side who can submit errors, so we need to manage more than 100 ...
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WYSIWIG development tools for web applications
In recent years most of my work has been back-end. When I used to do desktop development, I was impressed with the ease of development when using tools such as Eclipse Windowbuilder and Netbeans ...
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Efficient IDE for a small open source website project with one contributor
Microsoft Azure present a clean integrated process but I wonder if this is really more efficient for small projects.
Could IDE have the advantage of being usable in any computer without the need of a ...
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Need a browser extension that changes the browser theme based on URL
Every web developer has been there; you're up late at night trying to develop a new feature. Everything is going fine, or maybe it's not, but then you glance at the URL bar and realize you've been ...
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Web Development, putting python in the browser
I want to write a web page that allows the user to upload a set of python files and then it shows the file contents based on the selected file and allows the user to then run the file and see the ...
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Tools for website specification
You can specify the requirements and expected behavior of a piece of software with different tools, like those for UML-based diagramming. Are there specific tools for website modeling (GUI, databases, ...
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Payment solutions for digital product (license code)?
I have ads on my website, as well as a "consider buying our mobile app" nag screen that appears from time to time. Nothing too annoying, but still a bit of a nuisance for heavy users of the site.
I ...
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API Testing Tool
I'm having problems with Postman and not getting any meaningful help from their support.
Could someone recommend a nice API testing tool? Thanks.
P.S. The issue I'm having with Postman is that it's ...
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Free, minimal nodeJS hosting solution that doesn't require a credit card
So I've made a small Discord bot for a small Discord server, which runs with nodeJS. Right now the bot is running on my computer, which means I have to go to the CLI to start it, and which also means ...
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Tool to keep track of our maintainance modifications to many similar websites
We are maintaining a lot of similar websites.
We are looking for a tool which simplify our work:
Declare a task, that changes code.
[e.g mark active menu bar]
Declare the pages that need to be ...
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Web order/request pool
I'm looking for some kind of web software that runs on browsers that allows me to do some kind of request/order pool. It doesn't need to fit all my needs, but if gives me a starting point, it would be ...