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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

API interaction with a database via CRUD operations

In most web application projects, it is common to work with databases for the purpose of persistent data storage. You won’t be hardcoding plain text into your REST API, unless you are that person who tries to boil the ocean.

CRUD, an acronym for create, read, update, and delete, allows you to manage the state of resources in the database. Interestingly, each of the CRUD elements can also be mapped to the HTTP methods—GET, POST, PUT/PATCH, and DELETE – which further describes and facilitates the interaction with the database.

In a full stack web application, you expect your users to able to create a resource (POST or PUT if it is an existing resource), read a resource (GET), update a resource (PUT/PATCH), and delete a resource (DELETE). In this section, we will work with a simple venue resource with the following endpoints, and the HTTP operations we will perform on them are CRUD.

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