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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
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Part 2 – Backend Development with Flask

Summary

In this chapter, we have been able to understand Hooks as a new mind shift in how we add statefulness to components in React. Prior to Hooks, only class components could offer us stateful functionalities. With React 16.8, we are now able to develop stateful functional components in React applications that are more elegant and concise.

The learning curve is easy as we can leverage our understanding of regular JavaScript functions and develop function components to power user interfaces for our web applications. With Hooks in React, user and developer experiences have been greatly improved.

In the next chapter, we will focus extensively on how we can leverage React APIs to fetch data from external sources into our web applications. Most of the applications we use today rely heavily on external data. Undoubtedly, React shines well in this domain.