Building a web app with no framework

Re:Building a web app with no framework by zmix on Sunday March 06, 2022 @02:15AM (#30575681)

> Frameworks are mostly necessary on the backend.

Often not even there!

If you use something like BaseX[1] or eXist-db[2], both XML database and XQuery[3] implementations (they also have ways to act as SQL clients), you get REST-, user-, and database-management as native part of the programming language (XQuery).

For REST it must implement the RESTXQ[4] module standard, which both the named products do. Since XQuery understands XML natively, you get full templating, database queries, REST routing and much more.

[1] https://basex.org

[2] https://exist-db.org

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XQuery

[4] https://www.google.com/search?q=restxq

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Re:Building a web app with no framework by dotancohen on Sunday March 06, 2022 @04:34AM (#30576266)

This sounds like giving the client direct access to the database. Sounds like a great way to facilitate data exfiltration attacks.

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