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Full-Stack Flask and React

By : Adedeji
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Book Image

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

Creating error handlers

Flask also provides a mechanism for handling errors called error handlers. Error handlers are functions that are invoked when a specific error occurs in your application. These functions can be used to return custom error pages, log information about the error, or perform any other action that is appropriate for the error. To define an error handler in the Flask web application, you need to use the errorhandler decorator.

The decorator takes the error code as its argument, and the function that it decorates is the error handler that will be invoked when that error occurs. The error handler function takes an error object as its argument, which provides information about the error that occurred. This information can be used to provide a more detailed error response to the client or to log additional information about the error for debugging purposes.

In Flask backend and React frontend applications, error handling is a crucial step in ensuring a smooth user...