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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

Understanding the benefits of modular architecture in web development

Modular architecture is a software development approach that involves breaking down a large, complex system into smaller, independent, and reusable modules. In the history of web development, modular architecture became more apparent. The traditional monolithic architecture involved having all the components of a web application tightly coupled, resulting in a large, unwieldy code base that was difficult to maintain and scale.

As web applications became more complex and the need for scalability increased, developers began to seek alternative approaches that would allow them to break down a web application into smaller, independent components.

Modular architecture emerged as a solution to these limitations, as it allowed developers to create smaller, reusable components that could be combined to form a complete web application. This approach provided several benefits, including improved maintainability, easier...