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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
9
Part 2 – Backend Development with Flask

Editing data – the React–Flask approach

In addition to displaying and adding data, it’s also important for a web application to allow the user to edit data. In this section, you will learn how to implement data editing in a React-Flask web application.

Editing data in Flask

Now, let’s add the endpoint to handle the logic for updating the speaker data in the database. Add the following code to app.py:

from flask import jsonify, requestfrom werkzeug.utils import secure_filename
@app.route('/api/v1/speakers/<int:speaker_id>',
    methods=['PUT'])
def update_speaker(speaker_id):
    data = request.get_json()
    name = data.get('name')
    email = data.get('email')
    company = data.get('company')
    position = data.get('position')
    bio = data...