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SurveyJS - Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App
With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
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InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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  • Apache

    Mirror of Apache HTTP Server. Issues: http://issues.apache.org

    • Web Server Software lets you host static files and can be configured to do many things. Two popular web server software are Apache and Nginx. When we deploy a node web application we let browsers connect to a webserver which will then forward along requests meant for the application server (Reverse Proxy). This setup is shown in this article's first diagram.

  • Express

    Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for node.

    • The following is an example of a server side script written in Nodejs using the express framework.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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