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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

Testing and documenting with Postman

Postman is an advanced API platform that provides a range of features to simplify the development, testing, and utilization of APIs. Postman offers a user-friendly interface for testing API endpoints, generating API documentation, and collaborating on API-related operations.

To begin using Postman, you can download and install the application on your local machine. Visit the official Postman website at https://www.postman.com/downloads to access the download page. From there, you can choose the appropriate version for your operating system and follow the installation instructions.

Once you have Postman installed, you can leverage the power of Postman to document RESTful API endpoints, execute requests, analyze responses, and perform comprehensive testing.

Let’s leverage venues on the collections and generate API documentation that tells other developers how to make requests and describe the response to expect:

  1. On your computer...