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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)
1
Part 1 – Frontend Development with React
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Part 2 – Backend Development with Flask

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed extensively the application code structure and a few key steps required to integrate a React frontend with a Flask backend. First, you will need to set up the frontend to communicate with the backend, using an HTTP client library, and handle forms and user input.

Then, you will need to set up the Flask backend with the necessary routes and functions to handle the requests from the frontend and process the form data. Finally, you will need to test the entire application to ensure that it works correctly and as expected.

With these steps, you can successfully integrate a React frontend with a Flask backend for your web application. In the next chapter, we will scale up the React-Flask interactions by creating more tables. These tables will have relationships, and we will be able to fetch and display data.