Handling forms in React and Flask
Handling forms in a React frontend and a Flask backend is a common pattern in web development. In this pattern, the React frontend sends HTTP requests to the Flask backend to submit or retrieve form data.
On the React frontend side, you can use a form component to render a form and handle form submissions. You can use controlled components, such as input, textarea, and select, to control the form values and update the component state as a user inputs data.
When the user submits the form, you can use an event handler to prevent the default form submission behavior and send an HTTP request to the Flask backend using a library such as Axios. In this section, we will work with the Axios library.
On the Flask backend side, you can define a route to handle the HTTP request and retrieve the form data from the request object. You can then process the form data and return a response to the frontend.
The EventRegistration component provides a simple...