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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
9
Part 2 – Backend Development with Flask

API Development and Documentation

The application programming interface (API) is core to many technologies developers use to deal with data and facilitate communication between different systems. API-enabled digital business models are fast-growing. The need for experienced developers to build innovative enterprise solutions is equally on the rise.

The API economy is evolving into a new business model for sustainable business growth with a ton of opportunities for business owners and smart executives. If there were ever a time to be a developer, it would be now, with the plethora of public APIs and valuable commercial APIs that can make application development and deployment achievable with less effort.

Previously in this book, we discussed how databases and data modeling can be used to effectively store and retrieve application data as required. This chapter presents the opportunity to dive into the heart of backend development and leverage API technology to enable seamless...