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Questions tagged [client-server]

Client-server is a distributed software architecture where one layer runs on a server and processes request sent by another layer running on a different computer.

Client-server is a distributed software architecture where one layer runs on a server and processes request sent by another layer running on a different computer. Typically, the client interacts with the user.

Client-server can also distribute more than 2 layers on more than 2 processing nodes (tiered architecture).

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Difference between a server and a client

On a high level, this is my understanding of the difference between a client and server: a server listens on a host and a port, receives requests (e.g. through a socket connection), and then sends a response to the client who initiated the socket…
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Put fixed selections in client, or load them from server?

Context is a single page app with a rest backend. For things like state and city lists, which rarely change, is it better to store them on server and load from client, or store them directly on client as javascript objects? I am in favor of putting…
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