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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

What is containerization?

Containerization is a software development practice that involves packaging an application and required dependencies into a self-contained unit called a container. A container is an isolated and lightweight runtime environment that provides a consistent and reproducible way to run an application across different computing environments.

Let’s say you have developed a web application using the Flask framework on your local machine running on MacOS. You want to deploy this application to a server running Ubuntu Linux in a production environment. However, there may be differences in the versions of the operating system, dependencies, or other system configurations that could affect the behavior of your application.

By packaging your Flask application and all the required dependencies into a container, you can ensure that the application runs consistently and reliably across different computing environments. The container will provide an isolated and...