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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

Fetching and displaying data – the React-Flask approach

In this chapter, first, we will be fetching data on speakers and displaying it to the users of the application. But before heading into that, let’s do some code restructuring. You will need to restructure the backend to accommodate the growing app.py file contents in the project directory. Dividing the code into different components improves the overall structure and organization of the application.

Rather than having the entire code in a single module, you can structure your code to separate concerns. We’ll discuss more on code structuring for larger applications in Chapter 14, Modular Architecture – The Power of Blueprints. With this code split, developers can easily locate and modify specific parts of the code base without affecting other components. This modular approach also promotes code reusability.

Now, back to the code, you will add models.py to the backend project directory (bizza/backend...