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Full-Stack Flask and React

By : Adedeji
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Full-Stack Flask and React

3.5 (2)
By: Adedeji

Overview of this book

Developing an interactive, efficient, and fast enterprise web application requires both the right approach and tooling. If you are a web developer looking for a way to tap the power of React’s reusable UI components and the simplicity of Flask for backend development to develop production-ready, scalable web apps in Python, then this book is for you. Starting with an introduction to React, a JavaScript library for building highly interactive and reusable user interfaces, you’ll progress to data modeling for the web using SQLAlchemy and PostgreSQL, and then get to grips with Restful API development. This book will aid you in identifying your app users and managing access to your web application. You’ll also explore modular architectural design for Flask-based web applications and master error-handling techniques. Before you deploy your web app on AWS, this book will show you how to integrate unit testing best practices to ensure code reliability and functionality, making your apps not only efficient and fast but also robust and dependable. By the end of this book, you’ll have acquired deep knowledge of the Flask and React technology stacks, which will help you undertake web application development with confidence.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Frontend Development with React
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Part 2 – Backend Development with Flask

Setting up PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy, and Alembic

We are going to start by setting up the database tools needed for the backend database. PostgreSQL is a popular free and open source RDBMS. It is similar to other dialects of the SQL databases that exist – for example, MySQL, MariaDB, and Oracle. This database can be used to store data for any web application. PostgreSQL has enterprise-grade features that make it robust, scalable, and reliable.

We will also set up SQLAlchemy, an object-relational mapper (ORM). An ORM is a high-level abstraction layer on top of a relational database that allows web developers to rely on Python object-oriented programming code to execute database operations, such as read, insert, update, and delete, rather than writing SQL queries directly. Finally, in this section, we will set up Alembic to handle database migrations.

Setting up PostgreSQL

To get started with PostgreSQL locally on your machine, download it from https://www.postgresql.org...