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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

Understanding access and authorization in web application development

Access and authorization in web application development is the process of controlling who has access to specific resources and actions within a web application. As a developer, you will want to design and ensure that users can only perform actions they are authorized to perform and access resources they are authorized to access in a web application.

As discussed earlier, authentication is the process of verifying the identity of a user. Authorization is the process of determining what a user is allowed to do within a web application. When you combine these two mechanisms, you have a system that ensures that only authorized users can access sensitive information and perform certain actions within a web application.

Several different types of access control methods can be used in web application development. We will discuss some of them and make specific reference to how Flask can handle access and authorization...