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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
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Part 2 – Backend Development with Flask

Testing JSON APIs

Testing JSON APIs is an essential part of developing any web application that communicates with external clients. APIs provide a simple and flexible way to exchange data between the server and the client. APIs are critical to ensure that the APIs work as expected before they are exposed to external users.

Unit-testing JSON APIs involves verifying that the API endpoints return the expected results for different types of input data and handling error cases. Additionally, it’s essential to ensure that the API follows industry-standard protocols and is secure against common web vulnerabilities. In this way, developers can ensure the reliability and security of the web application and minimize the risk of errors or security breaches.

Let’s go through a test suite with four tests – test_get_all_speakers, test_create_speaker, test_update_speaker, and test_delete_speaker:

import pytestimport requests
# Define the base URL for the speakers API...