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Full-Stack Flask and React

By : Adedeji
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Book Image

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

Understanding database concepts for Flask applications

Now that we have set up our database and connected with it using the Terminal, it is crucial to have a solid understanding of some database concepts to be able to set up backend services that can collect, store, and retrieve users’ data.

Most modern web applications have a database to store users’ data. As a full stack web developer, part of your responsibility is to be able to set up backend services that can collect, store, and retrieve users’ data. We will dive into interacting with databases from a Flask application shortly, but before that there are few database concepts you need to understand.

Let’s take a quick overview of the following database concepts.

RDBMS

When working with a database in a production environment, you need an RDBMS. An RDBMS is a software package that allows you to interact with a database. The RDBMS software allows you to define, manipulate, retrieve, and manage...