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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)
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Part 1 – Frontend Development with React
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Part 2 – Backend Development with Flask

Implementing a REST API in a Flask application

Flask, as a popular Python web framework, provides developers with a flexible and lightweight solution for building web applications. With Flask, you can easily create and manage RESTful APIs. The process of implementing a REST API in a Flask application is simple.

Implementing a REST API in a Flask application involves defining API endpoints, request handlers, and data models, and possibly connecting to a database. In this section, we are going to design a REST API service using Flask that a React frontend application can consume.

We will follow a simple process of defining the resources expected in the Bizza application, following which we will define the URLs (endpoints) that would be used to access the resources. In addition, we will use Flask’s routing system to map each endpoint to a specific function in the application.

Each function should handle the HTTP request, interact with the database (if necessary), and return...