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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)
1
Part 1 – Frontend Development with React
9
Part 2 – Backend Development with Flask

Summary

As we come to the end of this chapter, let’s take a moment to reflect on the exciting journey we’ve been on. The chapter explores modular architecture in web development and how Flask Blueprints can help build decoupled, reusable, maintainable, and testable Flask web applications.

The benefits of modularity, separation of concerns, and encapsulation remain key elements of modular architecture. In Flask, Blueprints organize a group of related views and other code into a single module. This chapter also covers setting up a Flask application with Blueprints. Finally, we discussed a very flexible way to build full stack web applications at scale with React frontend and Flask Blueprints.

Next, we will explore unit testing in Flask. Fasten up and let’s delve into the exciting world of testing in Flask backend development.