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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

Defining authentication and the authentication role in web application

Authentication is the process of verifying the identity of a user and ensuring that only authorized users have access to the application’s resources and functionality. Authentication is an important aspect of any web application, including those built with Flask.

This is typically done by prompting the user to provide a set of credentials, such as a username and password, that the web application can use to confirm the user’s identity. The purpose of authentication in web application development is to ensure that only authorized users can access sensitive information and perform certain actions within a web application.

In web development, we have several types of authentication methods that can be used in any web application project. These are some of the most commonly used methods:

  • Password-based authentication: This is the most common form of authentication we encounter in everyday...