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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
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Part 2 – Backend Development with Flask

Introducing Docker

Docker is a popular platform for developing, packaging, and deploying applications in containers. Before Docker’s invention, software developers had to deal with the problem of software dependencies, which meant that the software would work well on one computer but fail to work on another system.

Software developers would create programs on their computers, but when they tried to share them with other people, things often went wrong. Programs that worked perfectly on one computer might not have worked on another because of differences in the operating system, software versions, configuration files, or other system-related factors.

To solve this problem, a group of developers in 2013 released a tool called Docker. Docker lets developers package programs and all the necessary dependencies into something called a Docker image. A Docker image is a read-only template that contains the instructions for creating a Docker container. A Docker image includes the...