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Full-Stack Flask and React

Full-Stack Flask and React

By : Olatunde Adedeji
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Full-Stack Flask and React

Full-Stack Flask and React

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By: Olatunde 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.
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Part 1 – Frontend Development with React
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Part 2 – Backend Development with Flask

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In this chapter, we explored API development in Flask applications. We started by understanding what an API is all about and why businesses and developers are creating and consuming APIs to drive their data access. We took things further by taking a quick run through common terminologies developers come across when implementing the API design pattern.

Then, we unmasked the structure of endpoints and payloads, recognizing that designing routes and exchanging data form the foundational elements of API development. In addition, we critically examined the design principles guiding RESTful API development. We discussed how understanding the REST API design principles enhances best practices in API design and development. Also, we discussed the implementation of the REST API and how we can connect API backend services with a database in a Flask application.

Finally, we discussed API testing and documentation with Postman. In API design and development, we recognized how testing...

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