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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

Getting Started with React

So far, we have laid a solid foundation for understanding full stack web development using modern software stacks. Hopefully, you have already set up a React development environment on your local machine. If not, you can go back to Chapter 1, Getting Full Stack Ready with React and Flask, and revisit the Setting up a development environment with React section.

In this chapter, we’ll systematically start to introduce you to the world of React in a subtle way. You will learn a bunch of cool concepts and techniques that will help you develop intuitive user interfaces that enable users to interact with your web application. You will learn how to spring up your first React project without the hassle of a complex configuration and understand the basic directory structure required for every React project. Then, you’ll learn how to use ES6 features in React.

Components are the building blocks of any React application. In this chapter, you will...