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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
9
Part 2 – Backend Development with Flask

Summary

In this chapter, we provided a brief introduction to modern full stack web development, with an emphasis on the distinction between frontend and backend developers. We discussed the importance of React in building the user interfaces of web applications, and we explained how React and Flask are perfect tools to develop full stack web applications, owing to their simplicity, efficiency, and high performance when compared to rivals in the industry. The development environments for React and Flask were covered as well.

Lastly, we discussed the importance of Git as a tool for version control and the project we will build in this book, Bizza.

In the next chapter, we’ll dive deeper into explaining components, props, and states in React to better understand how React applications are built. A typical React project structure will be discussed, with the aim of learning the functions of files and directories.