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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

Handling the React frontend with Flask Blueprints

In the case of a React frontend and Flask backend, Blueprints can be used to organize the different API routes and views that the frontend needs to communicate with the backend. The frontend can make requests to the backend API endpoints that are defined in the Blueprints, and the backend can respond with the appropriate data.

Additionally, using Flask for the backend and React for the frontend provides a flexible and powerful development environment. Flask is a lightweight and easy-to-use web framework that is ideal for building RESTful APIs, while React is a popular and powerful frontend library that allows for the creation of complex and dynamic user interfaces. With these technologies, you can create high-performance, scalable web applications that are easy to maintain and update.

It’s time to unleash our imagination and explore the limitless potential of combining a Blueprint with a React frontend. Integrating a Flask...