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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 discussed some of the core concepts in React applications. We started with the basic anatomy of a React project structure as generated by the Create React App tool. Some of the purposes of the files and folders were explained. We discussed some of the ES6 features, such as using arrow functions, destructuring, and default and named exports.

We also defined components as a core building block of any React application. Two types of components were discussed: class and function components. In addition, we discussed props and how to pass information in props. The unidirectional information flow in React was clarified. Finally, we discussed state as a way React manages the internal data.

In the next chapter, we’ll dive deeper into React application development by discussing some of the hooks available in React. This will expose us to some of the advanced topics in React.