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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
9
Part 2 – Backend Development with Flask

API documentation

Have you ever tried to assemble a piece of equipment you bought from a store without looking through the manual? There is a high probability you will have done so deliberately. You smartly think it will be easy to put together, and most times, you get burned in this process of trial and error and eventually mess things up.

Manuals are a good resource meant to ease you through a product’s features and functionality. API documentation is no different from manuals for guidance, a set of instructions, references, or even tutorial materials that can enhance developers’ understanding of your API.

Why is API documentation a critical component of your API? We will examine a few reasons and dive into using the Postman client tool to document your API so that other developers can understand what it is all about and how to use it. We will use a very simplistic case study with the venues CRUD operation we examined in the preceding section.

In a production...