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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

Error Handling

Error handling is a critical component in the user experience of any web application. Flask provides several built-in tools and options for handling errors in a clean and efficient manner. The goal of error handling is to catch and respond to errors that may occur during the execution of your application such as runtime errors, exceptions, and invalid user inputs.

Flask provides a built-in debugger that can be used to catch and diagnose errors during development. So, why is the concept of error handling so important in any web application? An error-handling mechanism provides meaningful error messages to users when things go south when expected to go north, helping to maintain the overall quality of the user experience. Also, proactive error handling makes debugging easy.

If error-handling implementation is well thought out, then debugging issues and identifying the root causes of problems in the application becomes easier. As a developer, you would also want to...