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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

Integrating the React Frontend with the Flask Backend

This chapter represents a critical point in our quest to build a full stack web application. In this chapter, you will be introduced to a set of instructions on how to connect a Flask web server to a React frontend. You will learn how to pass form entries from the React frontend to the Flask backend. And after this integration, you can be officially called a full stack web developer.

React web applications usually have a sleek look and feel and are regarded as the Rolls-Royce of modern frontend web application applications. React has an intuitive user-interface-focused library, capable of powering production-grade web and mobile applications with ease.

The robust React ecosystem coupled with React’s tools and libraries facilitates end-to-end web development. When you combine React’s incredible component-based design pattern with a minimalist lightweight Flask framework, you get a rich web application that can...